Album Of My Life (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, 8) - Softcover

Szedlecki, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189747010X ISBN 13: 9781897470107

Publisher: The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, 2009

Synopsis

Ann Szedlecki was a Hollywood film-loving fourteen-year-old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and she went to the Soviet Union with her older brother, hoping to return for the rest of her family later. Instead, she ends up spending most of the next six and a half years alone in the Soviet Union, enduring the harsh conditions of northern Siberia under Stalin's Communist regime. Szedlecki's beautifully written story, which lovingly re-constructs her pre-war childhood in Lodz, is also compelling for its candour about her experiences as a woman in the Soviet Union during World War II. As a very young woman without family, living largely by her wits, she is only too aware of her own vulnerability and meets every challenge she faces with a fierce determination to survive. Throughout her ordeals she hears the echo of her mother's last words to her: "Be decent."

About this title

Book Description:

"I am the daughter of nobody. I have no sisters. I am nobody's granddaughter or daughter-in-law, aunt or cousin. Who am I? My past is all gone. It disappeared . . . "

From the Inside Flap:

Jewish, hiding, Nazi, WWII, concentration camp, Europe

About this edition

• Publisher: The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 189747010X
• ISBN 13: 9781897470107
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144