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• Shoah: Journey From the Ashes
(Five Star Publications; $14.95) is
Cantor Leo Fettman's personal story of
survival, as told to Paul M. Howey
(illustrations by Annette Sherman
Fettman). The Hungarian-born cantor
lost most of his family in Auschwitz
and was himself sent to Josef Mengele
for "medical" experimentation.
Fettman also survived a trip to the gal-
lows in an SS labor camp. The book
includes a historical prologue chroni-
cling 200 years of anti-Semitism.

• Man of Ashes by Salomon Isacovici
and Juan Manuel Rodriguez
(University of Nebraska Press;
$29.95) is the first-person account of
an Ecuadorian Holocaust survivor.
The Romanian-born Isacovici experi-
enced the assassination of his parents
and four siblings and is himself a sur-
vivor of Auschwitz. What distinguish-
es Man of Ashes from the accounts of
other survivors is its Latin American
connection. George Mason University
Prof. Dick Gerdes translated the
prize-winning book, which was first
published in Mexico in 1990.

• The House by the Sea: A Portrait
of the Holocaust in Greece (Mercury
House; $16.95) chronicles the Shoah
in that Mediterranean nation.
Rebecca Fromer, whose parents met
and married before World War I in
Salonika, Greece, wrote this book in
collaboration with Elia Haim Aelion,
one of Salonika's few survivors. Aelion
outlines the history of the Sephardim
in Greece before the Nazis and pro-
vides his personal experiences, along
with family trees and photographs.
Fromer has written one other
Holocaust-themed book and is a co-
founder of the Judah L. Magnes
Memorial Museum in her hometown
of Berkeley, Calif.

• Author Gabriel Temkin fled Nazi
persecution in Poland for the Soviet
Union in 1941, ending up as a
combat soldier in the Red Army.
His adventures, complete with pho-
tos, are recounted in My Just War:
The Memoir of a Jewish Army
Soldier in World War II (Presidio
Press; $24.95). After the war,
Temkin came home to marry his
girlfriend Hanna, and served as the
economic adviser to the deputy
prime minister of Poland. They left
the country in 1968 as a result of
the persecution of "persons of
Jewish origin," and today the
retired college professor lives with
his wife in Sarasota, Fla.

Study Of The Holocaust

• The Holocaust: A German
Historian Examines the Genocide,
by Wolfgang Benz (Columbia
University Press; $22), a historical
analysis by Germany's leading
Holocaust scholar, brings the
German perspective to this horrific
chapter in history.

• In Preempting the Holocaust (Yale
University Press; $22.50), Lawrence
L. Langer examines the Shoah and
finds, in his opinion, that there are
no redeeming lessons to be learned.
The book is a collection of essays by
the award-winning author of
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of
Memory. Langer is a retired professor
of English literature at Boston's
Simmons College.

Holocaust Poetry

• Louis Daniel Brodsky's fourth book
of poems devoted to the Holocaust,
The Eleventh Lost Tribe: Poems of
the Holocaust (Time Being Books;
$18.95) follows a quest for emotional
truth about the Shoah through the
voices of its victims. The book's four
main sections are Litzmannstadt (Lodz,
Poland) Ghetto, Survivors of the Death
Camps, Unscathed Refugees and
Children of a Stillborn Generation.

• The "nonfiction poetry" of Jason
Sommer in Other People's Troubles
(University of Chicago Press; $12.95)
tells the stories of his father, who
escaped a Hungarian labor camp, and
an aunt, who was in Auschwitz.
Sommer is an associate professor and
poet in residence at Fontbonne
College in St. Louis.

For Children

• No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
(Greenwillow; $16), by Anita Lobel,
is a powerful Holocaust memoir writ-
ten in an understated style, with the
telling details a child would notice.
The book was recently nominated for
the National Book Award for Young
People's Literature. Lobel was 5 when
the Nazis invaded her home in
Kracow, and then spent time in hid-
ing in the countryside, in the ghetto,
a convent and then concentration
camps; she came to America as a
teenager. Lobel, writer and illustrator
of several children's books, is the
recipient of a distinguished Caldecott
Honor for On Market Street.

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— Sandee Brawarsky
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