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- catalog abstract "The daughter of a Jewish seed exporter, the author was born Mira Ryczke in 1923 in a suburb of the Baltic seaport of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Her childhood was happy, and she learned to cherish her faith and heritage. Through the 1930s, Mira's family remained in the Danzig area despite a changing political climate that was compelling many friends and neighbors to leave. With the Polish capitulation to Germany in the autumn of 1939, however, Mira and her family were. Forced from their home. In calm, straightforward prose - which makes her story all the more harrowing - Kimmelman recalls the horrors that befell her and those she loved. Sent to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped the gas chambers by being selected for slave labor. Finally, as the tide of war turned against Germany, Mira was among those transported to Bergen-Belsen, where tens of thousands were dying from starvation, disease, and exposure. In April 1945, British troops. Liberated the camp, and Mira was eventually reunited with her father. Most of the other members of her family had perished. In the closing chapters, Kimmelman describes her marriage, her subsequent life in the United States, and her visits to Israel and to the places in Europe where the events of her youth transpired.".
- catalog contributor b10028183.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Forced from their home. In calm, straightforward prose - which makes her story all the more harrowing - Kimmelman recalls the horrors that befell her and those she loved. Sent to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped the gas chambers by being selected for slave labor. Finally, as the tide of war turned against Germany, Mira was among those transported to Bergen-Belsen, where tens of thousands were dying from starvation, disease, and exposure. In April 1945, British troops.".
- catalog description "Liberated the camp, and Mira was eventually reunited with her father. Most of the other members of her family had perished. In the closing chapters, Kimmelman describes her marriage, her subsequent life in the United States, and her visits to Israel and to the places in Europe where the events of her youth transpired.".
- catalog description "Life in Danzig -- Warsaw -- Next stop : Tomaszow Mazowiecki -- Tomaszow Ghetto -- Bloody April 1942 -- The watch -- Purim 1943 -- Life and death at Blizyn-Majdanek -- Pinio -- Choosing life -- Place called Auschwitz -- Promise kept -- Auschwitz-Hindenburg -- Evacuation and death march -- Bergen- Belsen -- Liberation -- Memories of my brother -- Eva -- New life-new love -- Coming to the United States -- Closing the circle.".
- catalog description "The daughter of a Jewish seed exporter, the author was born Mira Ryczke in 1923 in a suburb of the Baltic seaport of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Her childhood was happy, and she learned to cherish her faith and heritage. Through the 1930s, Mira's family remained in the Danzig area despite a changing political climate that was compelling many friends and neighbors to leave. With the Polish capitulation to Germany in the autumn of 1939, however, Mira and her family were.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 176 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0870499564 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0870499688 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
- catalog spatial "Poland Gdańsk".
- catalog spatial "Poland".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "940.53/18/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "DS135.P63 K557 1997".
- catalog subject "Holocaust survivors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Personal narratives.".
- catalog subject "Jews Poland Gdańsk Biography.".
- catalog subject "Kimmelman, Mira Ryczke, 1923-".
- catalog tableOfContents "Life in Danzig -- Warsaw -- Next stop : Tomaszow Mazowiecki -- Tomaszow Ghetto -- Bloody April 1942 -- The watch -- Purim 1943 -- Life and death at Blizyn-Majdanek -- Pinio -- Choosing life -- Place called Auschwitz -- Promise kept -- Auschwitz-Hindenburg -- Evacuation and death march -- Bergen- Belsen -- Liberation -- Memories of my brother -- Eva -- New life-new love -- Coming to the United States -- Closing the circle.".
- catalog title "Echoes from the Holocaust : a memoir / Mira Ryczke Kimmelman.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives. fast".
- catalog type "text".