Chapter 9—The Labor Camp: Skipping Out on Skalat

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Foreword 1
4. Acknowledgments 9
5. Co-Author’s Note on the Use of Yizkor Books and Rohatyn Memoirs 11
6. Zachor—Remember, a Holocaust Prayer 15
7. Maps 17
8. Part 1: Alex’s Memoir, Edited and Annotated
9. Chapter 1—The Shtetl 23
10. Chapter 2— Shtetl Life and the Mystery of the Survival of the Jewish People 35
11. Chapter 3—My World Collapses 43
12. Chapter 4—The Russians: Podhajce Becomes a “Workers’ Paradise” 49
13. Chapter 5—Refugees in Rohatyn 57
14. Chapter 6— The Germans, the Ukrainians, and the Pogrom (Summer 1941) 61
15. Chapter 7—The Judenrat (Jewish Council) 65
16. Chapter 8—First, the Ghetto; Then, Awful News 69
17. Chapter 9—The Labor Camp: Skipping Out on Skalat 75
18. Chapter 10—The First Action (March 1942) 79
19. Chapter 11— Building a Bunker, Breaking the Ice (Literally), and My Burning Shame 87
20. Chapter 12—The Yom Kippur Action (September 1942) 93
21. Chapter 13—Caught Again: The December Action (1942) 99
22. Chapter 14—The Baby and the Bunker 103
23. Chapter 15—My Mother Dies 111
24. Chapter 16—Luba Goes to Podhajce 113
25. Chapter 17—An Unpleasant Surprise 117
26. Chapter 18—The Resistance Group/“The Hope” 121
27. Chapter 19—Escape and Liquidation (May–June 1943) 125
28. Chapter 20—In Hiding 133
29. Chapter 21—The Final Ordeal, Then . . . Liberation! 143
30. Chapter 22—Our Return to Civilization 147
31. Photographs 155
32. Part 2: Eva’s Story of Life, Death, and Survival
33. Eva’s Story of Life, Death, and Survival 169
34. Chapter 23—Fleeing Radom (September 1939) 171
35. Chapter 24—Ludwipol (Summer 1941) 175
36. Chapter 25—The Nazis Murder Eva’s Father 179
37. Chapter 26—Into the Woods 183
38. Chapter 27—Liberation . . . Then Bitter Tears 189
39. Chapter 28—Some Reunions in Łódż: “Everyone’s Been Killed” 191
40. Chapter 29—The Destruction of Jewish Radom 195
41. Chapter 30—“Radom-in-Exile” and Motek’s Murder 203
42. Chapter 31—Antisemitism: From Łódż to Legnica 209
43. Part 3: Alexander and Eva Kimel
44. Chapter 32—1956: Quitting Poland for Israel: A Knife in Eva’s Heart 213 213
45. Chapter 33— Starting over yet Again in a New Country: Israel to America 217
46. Chapter 34— 1967: Poland Denies Eva’s Request to Attend Her Stepfather’s Funeral 221
47. Chapter 35— The “Refugees” Achieve the American Dream—Awe and Gratitude from the Next Generation 223
48. We Will Never Forget—Auschwitz 231
49. Holocaust Lamentations 233
50. Relatives Known to Have Perished in the Holocaust 235
51. Endnotes 237
52. Bibliography 277
53. Index 285
54. About the Authors 291