![Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/382/289/9780743289382.SS.0.m.jpg)
Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
by Kirschner, Ann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner (Author)...Hardcover IN DU
- ISBN 10
- 0743289382
- ISBN 13
- 9780743289382
- Seller
-
Luxemburg, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Free Press, 2006. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner (Author)...Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD COPYRIGHT 2006. ‎ Free Press; First Edition (Nov. 7 2006) Language ‏ : ‎ English... Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner (Author)...Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD COPYRIGHT 2006. ‎ Free Press; First Edition (Nov. 7 2006) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages... Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner (Author)...Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD COPYRIGHT 2006. ‎ Free Press; First Edition (Nov. 7 2006) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages"Do you know why I write so much? Because as long as you read, we are together."--Raizel Garncarz (Sala's sister), April 24, 1941 Few family secrets have the power both to transform lives and to fill in crucial gaps in world history. But then, few families have a mother and a daughter quite like Sala and Ann Kirschner. For nearly fifty years, Sala kept a secret: She had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. Living in America after the war, she kept from her children any hint of her epic, inhuman odyssey. She held on to more than 350 letters, photographs, and a diary without ever mentioning them. Only in 1991, on the eve of heart surgery, did she suddenly present them to Ann and offer to answer any questions her daughter wished to ask. It was a life-changing moment for her scholar, writer, and entrepreneur daughter. We know surprisingly little about the vast network of Nazi labor camps, where imprisoned Jews built railroads and highways, churned out munitions and materiel, and otherwise supported the limitless needs of the Nazi war machine. This book gives us an insider's account: Conditions were brutal. Death rates were high. As the war dragged on and the Nazis retreated, inmates were force-marched across hundreds of miles, or packed into cattle cars for grim journeys from one camp to another. When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Poland, at the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty. In the first years of the conflict, Sala was aided by her close friend Ala Gertner, who would later lead an uprising at Auschwitz and be executed just weeks before the liberation of that camp. Sala was also helped by other key friends. Yet above all, she survived thanks to the slender threads of support expressed in the letters of her friends and family. She kept them at great personal risk, and it is astonishing that she was able to receive as many as she did. With their heartwrenching expressions of longing, love, and hope, they offer a testament to the human spirit, an indomitable impulse even in the face of monstrosity. Sala's Gift is a rare book, a gift from Ann to her mother, and a great gift from both women to the world.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Red Rover Do Over
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0041954
- Title
- Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
- Author
- Kirschner, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner (Author)...Hardcover IN DU
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743289382
- ISBN 13
- 9780743289382
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2006
Terms of Sale
Red Rover Do Over
Sellers agree to ship within 2 business days of your purchase. Domestic Standard shipments are expected to arrive within 4 to 14 business days after shipping (they may take as long as 21 business days for media).
About the Seller
Red Rover Do Over
Biblio member since 2007
Luxemburg, Wisconsin
About Red Rover Do Over
bookseller with new and out of print, rare books ..
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- ALA
- American Library Association