Testimonials

»The Birch Trees Stand Tall. Conversations with my Father Moshe«

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Moshe Brezniak (1917–2003) relayed to his son Naphtali in detail the story of his survival during World War II in his home town, Polish Międzyrzec Podlaski (Mezritch). His flight began in August 1942, when the Hamburg Police Battalion 101 set up the largest transit ghetto of the Lublin district in Międzyrzec Podlaski, and he was able to, time and again, escape deportations and shootings. In May 1943, Moshe Brezniak was deported to the Majdanek concentration camp. He was a slave labourer in Auschwitz and later survived a death march. He emigrated to Palestine after the liberation in 1945. For the first time, the testimony of a survivor from Międzyrzec Podlaski has been published in German translation, telling the story of one of the central sites of the Holocaust – Jewish Mezritch.

ISBN: 978-3-942240-04-8
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»Beyond Survival. From Breslau to Australia«

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Kenneth James Arkwright (*1929) was born as Klaus Aufrichtig in German Breslau. A branch of his Jewish family had lived in Silesia since the 16th century. Beginning 1943, Klaus Aufrichtig had to carry out forced labour in Breslau. In 1944, he was deported to a labour camp, but he managed to flee and go into hiding. In 1945, he returned to his home city of Breslau, however, a few weeks later he saw himself forced to leave for Erfurt. He began his studies in East Berlin and emigrated to Perth, Australia, via Paris in 1949, where he became a successful businessman.

ISBN: 978-3-942240-03-1
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»Destined to Live. A Memoir«

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Sabina Van Der Linden-Wolanski (1927–2011) was the only one of her family to survive the Holocaust in eastern Poland. She emigrated to Australia via now Polish Silesia and Paris in 1950, with only a diary and a handful of photographs to remind her of her childhood. Decades later, these unique documents became part of the exhibition at the Information Centre of the Memorial. On May 10, 2005, Sabina was a guest of honour and speaker and the opening of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Her autobiography testifies to her assertiveness and the doubts of a young woman in the face of violence and murder, and tells the story of a courageous new beginning as a wife, mother and businesswoman at the other end of the world.

ISBN: 978-3-942240-02-4
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»End of Days in East Prussia. An Unspoken of Chapter of the Holocaust«

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January 1945. Hundreds of thousands in East Prussia have to flee from the Red Army. During this time, the SS chased at least 5,000 Jewish prisoners from Königsberg to the Baltic coast at Palmnicken. Only 15 people survived the death march and the massacre that followed – one of them was Maria Blitz from Cracow. 55 years later, now living in the US, she wrote down her story of persecution and imprisonment between 1939 and 1945 and her life story entitled ›My Holocaust‹.

The to-date unpublished text includes an historical explanatory note and further testimonies by eyewitnesses.

ISBN: 978-3-942240-01-7
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