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A world erased, a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets, Noah Lederman

Language

eng

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autobiography

Illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A world erased

Oclc number

941140135

Responsibility statement

Noah Lederman

Sub title

a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets

Summary

This moving memoir by the grandson of Holocaust survivors transports readers from Noah's grandmother's home in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. Together, they explore the memories-of Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the displaced persons camps-that his family had long buried. Their shared journey illuminates the power of never forgetting

Table Of Contents

The Holocaust through nightmares -- Super Poppy and the meshugge grandma -- The hospital -- Keys to the Holocaust vault -- Adrift -- Death in the Czech Republic -- The e-mail -- Otwock -- From night to dawn -- Peering into the vault -- The tapes -- Panama -- Escape from Warsaw -- Revision -- A box of photos -- The four questions -- Israel -- Research at Yad Vashem -- Nearly unraveled -- The boy at the gates of Warsaw -- Lightning lad -- Escape from Treblinka -- The liquidation -- Grandma's determination -- Get well soon -- The bronze arm -- Bergen-Belsen -- Better and you better -- Umschlagplatz -- The mystery camp -- A return to the camps -- Majdanek -- Birkenau -- Auschwitz -- The Buna -- Liberation -- In search of new beginnings

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Grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets

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