Fiet's Vase - Softcover

Gold, Alison Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585423602 ISBN 13: 9781585423606

Publisher: Tarcher, 2004

Synopsis

A collection of personal accounts conveys the experiences of Europeans during the Second World War, from the story of a young Jewish woman who strove to protect her baby sister to a Nazi's son who discovered a lifelong passion for the theater. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Alison Leslie Gold is the author of Anne Frank Remembered, an international bestseller that has been translated into eighteen languages and was included as one of the "Best of Best" one hundred books of the past twenty-five years by the American Library Association.

From Booklist:

Gold, coauthor (with Miep Gies) of Anne Frank Remembered, offers 20 World War II survival stories. Although most of the book deals with the Holocaust and Jewish threnody, some of the stories involve non-Jews. One chronicles the life of the son of a Nazi, guiltless of his father's complicity in the hatred of Jews. Gold tells how he was reunited with his wife through a series of coincidences after the war. Other accounts include the story of a wife who secretly put her husband's name on Schindler's list instead of her own so that he would not be sent to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, while she was sent to Auschwitz. Another tells the story of a 12-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl who narrowly escaped being raped by a Russian soldier after a woman offered to take her place. The young girl also was spared from being shot and thrown into the Danube River. Gold spent 15 years researching archives and interviewing survivors from Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Italy, and Holland. This is a truly remarkable and memorable work that captures the horrors of war in an era of unfathomable evil. George Cohen
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tarcher
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1585423602
• ISBN 13: 9781585423606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256