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History

In Brief

_Memoirs

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uthor Joseph Rebhum, M.D.,
was 22 years old when the Nazis
moved the Jewish population of
Przemsyl, Poland, into a ghetto. Leap
to Life: Miumph Over Nazi Evil
(Ardor Scribendi; $25) is his vivid
account of the horrors he, and others
in the town, experienced. He bravely
struggled to protect his parents and
then survived in the woods, eluding
and outwitting the Gestapo. The
book is illustrated with family pho-
tos, some of which Rebhun carried
with him throughout his ordeal, even
risking his life to preserve them.
Speak You Also: A Survivor's
Reckoning (Henry Holt and
Company; $21) by Paul Steinberg is
another account of survival in
Auschwitz, but one that ponders the
question of the morality of survival.
Is it wrong to use any means available
to survive? Steinberg responds to
charges against him in an earlier
account of survival, Primo Levi's If
This Is a Man, as he traces his ruth-
less struggle and strategies to escape
extermination.
Who Loves You Like This (Paul
Dry Books; $14.95) is author Edith
Bruck's story of imprisonment, at age
12, in Auschwitz, Dachau and
Bergen-Belson, her painful postwar
years in Europe and subsequent
immigration to Israel. Unable to find
peace or belonging, she finally moved
to Rome, where she lives today.
Very little has been written about
the Jewish-Christian families in
Hitler's Germany. Divided Lives: The
Untold Stories ofiewish-Christian
Women in Nazi Germany by Cynthia
Crane (St. Martin's Press; $26.95)
tells the horrifying stories of I0
women labeled inischling, Hirler's
term for half-breeds, or those who

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were not fully German. As with the
author's family, these women suffered
losses and terrors as a result of anti-
Jewish laws when they had little or no
idea what being Jewish meant.
Joy Erlichman Miller examines the
female experience in Auschwitz dur-
ing the Holocaust. Love Carried Me
Home: Women Surviving Aushwitz
(Simcha Press; $11.95) is based on a
two-year research study exploring the
coping strategies and adaptation
mechanisms of women. In their testi-
monies of survival, these 16 women
teach the importance of emotional
bonding and affiliation, as well as
love and human connection.

Holocaust Fiction

Recently reissued, Adam
Resurrected, by Israeli author Yoram
Kaniuk (Grove Press; $14), shows a
world in which the lines between
sanity and madness are blurred.
Adam, a former circus clown, has
been spared the gas chamber so that
he might entertain other Jews on the
way to their death. His story contin-
ues in an Israeli asylum; populated by
Holocaust survivors, where he finds
himself smarter than the doctors but
more insane then the other patients
as he struggles toward healing.
From an idyllic childhood on Java,
Lulu is forced to face a hostile world
when she and her family move back
to Holland and subsequently into
hiding because of the German inva-
sion. The Song and the Truth by
Helga Ruebsamen (Alfred A. Knoff;
$26) is a novel of a father's love and a
child's courage.
Abba Kovner, an award-winning
Israeli writer, gives a fictionalized
chronicle of the Holocaust that reads
like a suspense novel. Scrolls of
Testimony (The Jewish Publication
Society; $75) is the author's testimony
combined with others' real eyewitness
accounts, diary entries, poems and last
wills and testaments. These accounts
are woven together, the book arranged

The Holocaust Encyclopedia by
Walter Laqueur (Yale University
Press; $60) is an up-to-date, compre-
hensive and easy access single-volume
work of reference. The book includes
information on the major aspects of
the Holocaust in essays by scholars
from 11 countries, providing studies
on political, social, religious and
moral issues. Also included are short
entries identifying events, sites and
individuals, more than 250 photo-
graphs and 19 maps.
Generation Exodus: The Fate of
Young Jewish Refiigees from Nazi
Germany, also by Walter Laqueur
(University Press of New England;
$29.95), presents a collective biography
of a generation of German Jews who
were in their teens to early 20s when
they fled the Nazis. This group, young
and flexible enough to survive, flourish
and make contributions to their coun-
tries, and include many renowned fig-
ures such as Henry Kissinger, former
Treasury secretary Michael Blumenthal,
Nobel Prize-winner Arno Penzias and
"Dr. Ruth" Westheimer.
On July 10, 1941, in the town of
Jedwabne, Poland, one half of the
town's population, either actively or
by tacitly standing aside, murdered
approximately 1,600 Jewish men,
women and children, the very people
whom they called their neighbors.
The occupying German army did not
compel the massacre, and the town's
Jews and Christians had previously
enjoyed cordial relations. Seven of the
town's Jews escaped. In Neighbors:
The Destruction of the Jewish
Community in Jedwabne, Poland
(Princeton University Press; $19.95),
Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness
accounts and other evidence into a
reconstruction of a horrific day for-
gotten by history.

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Poetry

Selected Poems and Prose of Paul
Celan (WW Norton; $29.95) is
organized chronologically and includes
youthful lyrics, unpublished poems
and prose. Celan began writing poetry
in the camps. The poems are present-
ed in the original German with the
English translation on the facing
pages. Celan's poetry won Germany's
major postwar literary prizes.

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