Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Part I Growing up jewish in prewar latvia
6. 1 My Background 3
7. 2 Grandmother emma 6
8. 3 The jewish community of riga 17
9. 4 My father 21
10. 5 My mother and our home 28
11. 6 Grandmother sophie and the griliches family 38
12. 7 Sylvia 45
13. 8 My aunts and uncles 48
14. 9 Thea, arthur, and manfred peter 58
15. 10 Summers at jurmala 65
16. 11 My schools 70
17. 12 Soviet occupation of latvia 76
18. Part II The war and postwar years
19. 13 Germany attacks the soviet union 83
20. 14 The Nazis Enter Riga 86
21. 15 Riga ghetto 93
22. 16 Aktion: the destruction of the riga ghetto 99
23. 17 Little Ghetto 106
24. 18 KZ kaiserwald 127
25. 19 KZ stutthof 132
26. 20 Polte-Werke—Magdeburg 136
27. 21 Liberation 141
28. 22 Human again 144
29. 23 Finding relatives 152
30. 24 A new country, a new beginning 157
31. 25 Building a life 163
32. The michelson family tree 167
33. The griliches family tree 168
34. Notes 169