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Book

From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation

Call Number

  • 940.5318 R826 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Hachette Books, 2018.

Physical Description

xix, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

A survivor of the Holocaust describes how he learned through his darkest experiences of the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances, and later used that knowledge to help underprivileged youth in Boston for more than forty years.

Contents

  • From broken glass
  • The trouble in the world
  • A life in America
  • Goodbye Lodz
  • Neighborhood services
  • A safe way out
  • A friend in Boston
  • The farm
  • Grandpa
  • The forest
  • Memory and escape
  • Dreaming of home
  • The man who lost his way
  • Work and death
  • Intervention
  • Self-preservation
  • Pinia
  • Opening the vault
  • Herzil
  • The end of hope
  • Heart trouble
  • Escape from Budzyn
  • Radom
  • No matter how bad
  • The honor of work
  • The train to Auschwitz
  • How I learned of Robert Hall
  • Tattooed
  • Matriculation
  • An empire falls
  • Dead, gone, and forgotten
  • The busing crisis
  • Guns in the distance
  • To never forget
  • Memorial rising
  • Liberation.

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