My Father's Testament: Memoir of a Jewish Teenager, 1938-1945 - Softcover

Gastfriend, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566397359 ISBN 13: 9781566397353

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1999

Synopsis

A first-person account, by the youngest of eight children of a pious Jewish family, showing the remarkable faith of a teenager faced with the horrifying realities of the Holocaust. Edward Gastfriend remembers in heart-wrenching detail the seven years he survived in German-occupied Poland.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Gastfriend and Björn Krondorfer are active in Holocaust education. Chairman of the Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Philadelphia, Gastfriend spearheaded a project to memorialize the millions who perished during the Holocaust. Krondorfer, who teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland, is the author of several books, including Remembrance and Reconciliation: Encounters between Young Jews and Germans.

Review

"My Father's Testament will interest scholars concerned with both the complex process of how one comes to bear testimony and the often conflicted relationship between father and son in times of crisis." -Judaism "My Father's Testament is a remarkable Holocaust memoir, written in a style of Biblical simplicity that evokes a child's voice of family love and kinship brutally interrupted, and an incredible determination to survive and retain, in adulthood, the ethical imperatives of his parental home. An altogether riveting and memorable narrative." -Chaim Potok

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1566397359
• ISBN 13: 9781566397353
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187