Dove on a Barbed Wire - Softcover

Steiner-van Rooyen, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934440795 ISBN 13: 9781934440797

Publisher: Urim Publications, 2010

Synopsis

When Deborah Steiner-van Rooyen was instructed by her grandfather to locate Yonah Steiner, his brother’s son, all she had to go on was the name of the Israeli kibbutz he had lived on nearly two decades earlier. Against the odds, however, she was able to find Yonah and—more impressively—persuade him to share his experiences during the Holocaust, which he had to that point refused to discuss, even with his own children. Yonah’s memories of his life from his capture at the age of 13 by the Nazis in Poland while on his way home from school, through the seven brutal years of slave labor he endured in a concentration camp, to his liberation from the camp, upon which he and other prisoners maimed and murdered Nazi soldiers with bayonets, are astonishing in their forthrightness and utterly moving. With 32 pages of color and black-and-white photos, this deeply affecting chronicle serves as evidence both of humankind’s tremendous capacity for cruelty, but also its penchant for resilience in the face of adversity.

About this title

About the Author:

Deborah Steiner-van Rooyen is a graphic designer and a writer. A former freelance photographer, she also worked as a design consultant for the Noor Al Hussain Foundation, which helps rural village women and refugees develop crafts and textiles for export markets. She lives in Boston.

Review:

I stayed up most of the night reading this book. It's a brave and
beautiful work of the heart, spirit and soul. --Shira Nayman, author, AWAKE IN THE DARK

Yonah Steiner. A boy of courage. A man of courage. An unsung hero whose powerful words are being heard at last. Let this book be handed down from generation to generation so we never forget to remember. --Uzi Welish, KIBBUTZ GINOSAR, Israel

Chilling, riveting, authentic testimony. This is a story about a boy whose walk home from school becomes a 60-year odyssey of instinctive survival: from seven years
of brutality under Nazi terror, navigating the post war chaos, fighting to rebuild his life in the fledgling State of Israel, reconnecting with a missing link of his family, and then facing his past with strength and acceptance. You just want to hug
this hard, tough man because you know his heart is larger than his pain. --Dr. Bella Gutterman, author, A NARROW BRIDGE TO LIFE

About this edition

• Publisher: Urim Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934440795
• ISBN 13: 9781934440797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180