1939-1943 holocaust persecuted underground

books:

How My Parents Learned to Eat (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books)

16 reviews
Ina R. Friedman

Houghton Mifflin, 1987

an appreciation for both japanese and american culture
In How My Parents Learned to Eat, the author takes us on a journey to Japan in which an American sailor meets a Japanese high school girl. The narrator of the story is their daughter and she starts off saying, "In our house, some days we eat with chopsticks and some days we eat with knives and forks. For me, it's natural." The book illustrates the cultural differences and similarities of Japanese ...

The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis (Sandpiper)

9 reviews
Ina R. Friedman

Houghton Mifflin, 1995

my review
The Other Victims was a book of real life stories from the Holocaust. I liked this book because it tells how people had to go into hiding, how they had no freedom, and how they fought back. The book is mainly about people trying to escape from Germany to America or a safe country. My favorite chapter was Bubili: a young Gypsy's fight for survival. Once I started to read this book I couldn't ...

The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt (A Midland Book)

1 review
Yisrael Gutman

Indiana University Press, 1989

Unique insider perspective of first Warsaw Uprising Genesis
One of the few surviving participants of the first Warsaw Uprising, the revolt of the remaining Jewish Ghetto in April 1943, writes a detailed multi approach history of the genesis, development, eradication, resistance, and final death throes rebellion of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. Yisrael Gutman conducts a review of the "life" of the Warsaw Ghetto from September of 1939 to April-May 1943. The ...

Escape or Die : True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust

3 reviews
Ina R. Friedman

J. B. Lippincott, 1991

Dynamic, first-person stories of young teenagers
Accomplished storyteller Ina R. Friedman's compelling video Escape Or Die: True Stories Of Young People Who Survived The Holocaust vividly presents three powerful, dynamic, first-person stories of young teenagers who survived the Nazi Holocaust against all odds. There is Many, age 14, caught in the violence of Crystal Night and who witnesses his home and family shattered (11 minutes); Renee, age ...

Flying Against the Wind: The Story of a Young Woman Who Defied the Nazis

2 reviews
Ina R. Friedman

Lodgepole Press, 1995

Pretty silly if you ask me
This is more of the culture of pity attempting to sanctify a woman deluded by her need for self-identity into a concept of differentness. There are no heroes here, only overblown symbols.