holocaust, jewish

The Shoah, the destruction of European Jewry which he survived, was Richard Bugajer's "shadow life.".

Dina Gold grew up in Britain hearing tales of her Wolff great-great grandparent's, great-grandparent's and grandparent's glamorous lives in pre-Nazi Berlin. Her family owned a very successful fur business and built a huge building in 1909 at Krausenstrasse 17/18 in Berlin. Once the Nazis came to power all that disappeared, and, like so many other Jewish families, Dina wondered what had become of her family's lawful assets. Her search was stymied for years because the building was in East Berlin. Once the Berlin Wall fell, she began her quest for justice. And there was a bonus to her years of successful research---historians did not know much about the Jews' lives in pre-Nazi Berlin and were anxious to hear her story, see her photographs, and look at her research.

On April 29, 1945, the forward battalions of Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry, were moving swiftly toward Munich. They had survived four months of costly and bitter combat. They were optimistic and confident as the war was coming to an end. Amost half of the soldiers were eighteen to twenty years old. And then their road led to the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp. To the horrors of war they added the horrors of Dachau. This book honors the memories of the American liberators whose lives were forever changed by what they saw on April 29, 1945. The editor of the book was a Rainbow soldier.

Ten-year-old Lazorek Hershenfi survived the Nazis and the death camps. Eventually he began a new life in Palestine, taking the name of Eliezer Ayalon. Like other survivors, he shares his story so that the events of the Holocaust may never be repeated.

Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka shared a secret---they were pregnant. Separated from their husbands they were scared. After losing so much to the Nazis, they were determined to hold on to their unborn babies. Against all odds, the three women survived, gave birth under horrible circumstances, and went on to build new lives with their children after World War II. Their stories of hardships and miracles almost defy belief. Sixty-five years later, the three "miracle babies" (two girls and a boy) share the story of their mothers who defied death at the hands of the Nazis to give their children life.

In 1938 Trudi Kanter was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She was stunningly beautiful, chic, charismatic, and frequented the most elegant cafes with her many suitors. She flew to Paris regularly to see the latest fashions. She soon fell deeply in love with businessman Walter Ehrlich. As Hitler's tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed. Their flight from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London details her courage, resourcefulness, and perseverance that kept them both safe. Found in a secondhand bookshop in London and first published in 1984, this book gives readers a second chance to discover Trudi's story. She died in 1992.