The Tale of the Ring: A Kaddish - Softcover

Stiffel, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553342142 ISBN 13: 9780553342147

Publisher: Bantam, 1985

Synopsis

In 1939, Frank Stiffel was a young Jewish student who held a medical degree and had hopes of a promising literary career. A poet and a dreamer, he hardly seemed cut out for the role of fighter. Yet as the Nazis closed in on him and his family, Stiffel discovered within himself resources that would mean the difference between life and death.

Drawn from the secret diary he protected throughout his harrowing existence in the Warsaw Ghetto, Treblinka and Auschwitz, Frank Stiffel recreates the horror and miracle of that life - with unprecedented honesty.

For Stiffel had a mystical Ring, a cameo with the face of a beautiful girl who appeared in his dreams to warn him of danger. With the ring and his simple unbendable rule - keep your dignity or die - he became one of a tiny minority to survive.

During his final flight to freedom in the back of a chestnut wagon, Frank Stiffel woke once again to the exquisite face on the ring. Only this time she was real. Her name was Ione. She and Stiffel were soon married, and the promise of the ring was fulfilled at last.

About this title

About the Author

Stiffel was born in Austro-Hugnarian Galicia. He grew up as a young Jew in the then Polish City of Lwow. In 1942, he and his family were deported to the Death Camp of Treblinka, from which he escaped, only to be apprehended a few months later. He served time in Gestapo jails and in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, until the Red Army liberated the camp in 1945. Soon, he left Poland, leading a 20-person group of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, first to Romania, then to Italy.

From Library Journal

Though many personal accounts of the Holocaust are available, LJ's reviewer praised this 1984 volume for its description of "multinational Poland before the war and the interlude of Soviet occupation" (LJ 2/15/84). With the popularity of Schindler's List and the upcoming 50th anniversary of D-Day, books dealing with the Holocaust and World War II are going to be in demand.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553342142
• ISBN 13: 9780553342147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348