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About An Heiress Of Holocaust
Product Description A unique memoir of Holocaust atrocities and life under their heavy influence Poland, 1942. "My mom told me how her sister, Cirella, threw her two-year-old daughter Bella from the window of the moving train that was taking them to the concentration camp Treblinka. How the mother had leaped after the baby but was killed by the bullet of a Polish guard. Mom told how the toddler was last seen sitting in the place where she had fallen, while a Polish woman gathered her up into her lap. You have a cousin in Wysokie Mazowickie who surely survived. Maybe one day you will manage to find her." Sarah Segal tells the horrific tale of the Holocaust, the gripping story of her family and her ravaged home. She relates the story of a family member who served in the special Sonderkommando unit in Auschwitz, who spent six years in the Holocaust with death breathing down his neck. She describes how this brave group of strong Jewish men were forced to aid the Nazis in carrying out the Final Solution to the Jewish problem. How these prisoners of Auschwitz managed to go on after sending their victims to the gas chambers and then to the crematoriums. The author goes on to describe the defining moments of her childhood after the Holocaust, when her family immigrated to the State of Israel. She recounts her childhood in the shadow of a Holocaust survivor mother, the responsibility she undertook as a child by becoming an anchor for her mother’s bi-polar disorder, and how her family never escaped the ever-present black mantle of the Holocaust. An Heiress of the Holocaust allows the reader a rare glimpse into the darkest time in human history, and its continuous and devastating effect on the lives of Holocaust survivors and their successors. Review "This manuscript is an important personal document. As the author puts it, there is great value in memorializing Holocaust stories, which seem in recent years to be becoming more and more personal - thus penetrating deeper into the readers' consciousness and acquiring greater significance. The author's choice to combine the historical and personal dimensions of her story adds depth and uniqueness to her book, and transforms it from merely a story of Holocaust atrocities (which are of course ever-present) to so much more than that. This is a manuscript laden with emotion, sorrow, and pain, which appears to illustrate almost entirely authentically the hardships that the author and her parents suffered through the years." - Yuval Nissani, Head Lector, Niv Books "This manuscript addresses an extremely important subject, children in their 70s and 80s who are still influenced by the Holocaust... I feel as though my designated role is to be a "memory flame"... the calling of the chosen people, as I, too, "was there". The accusing history will be written. The author skillfully describes her childhood home and the times she grew up in. The Holocaust accounts weaved into the story are gripping and fascinating. The story is written with a great deal of talent, and it is interesting and covers an important topic." - Udi Ochana, Deputy CEO of Ofir Bikurim Publishing House From the Author My parents' home was the lone surviving ember. In it a light always burned to banish the darkness. The light that awakens the memories that refuse to be forgotten. The candle whose wax has melted but will never be extinguished. My empathy for their suffering was so great that I felt as though I had been with them every day of the six years. My pity was always mixed with guilt, for not having been able to help while chaos raged in their lives. I still see in my mind how my deceased relatives' sunk into the pits, how the unrelenting threat of death never ceased to breathe down their necks.
