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Overview"In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation.His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to work, but eleven-year-old George dug potatoes, split wood, and resourcefully helped his family. They suffered hunger and deprivation, a forced march to the Rzeszow ghetto, then eternal separation when fourteen-year-old George and his brother were left behind to labour in work camps while their parents were deported in boxcars to die in Belzec. For the next three years, George slaved and barely survived in ten concentration camps, including Rzeszow, Plaszow, Flossenburg, Colmar, Sachsenhausen, Braunschweig, Ravensbruck, and Wobbelin. Cattle cars filled with skeletal men emptied into a train yard in Colmar, France. George and the other prisoners marched under the whips and fists of SS guards. But here, unlike the taunts and rocks from villagers in Poland and Germany, there was applause. ""I could clearly hear the people calling: ""'Shame! Shame!' ...Suddenly, I realized that the people of Colmar were applauding us! They were condemning the inhumanity of the Germans!"" Of the 500 prisoners of the Nazis who marched through the streets of Colmar in the spring of 1944, just 50 were alive one year later when the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division liberated the Wobbelin concentration camp on the afternoon of May 2, 1945. ""I felt something stir deep within my soul. It was my true self, the one who had stayed deep within and had not forgotten how to love and how to cry, the one who had chosen life and was still standing when the last roll call ended.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: George Lucius Salton , Anna Salton Eisen , Anna Salton EisenPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780299179700ISBN 10: 0299179702 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 04 September 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""When Simon Dubnow, the renowned historian of European Jewry, was led away to his death, he cried 'Yidn shreibt und farshreit!' (Jews write and record!). George Salton fulfills Dubnow's legacy in a faithful manner. This is a book to be read and passed down to our children."" - Miles Lerman, chairman emeritus, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" When Simon Dubnow, the renowned historian of European Jewry, was led away to his death, he cried 'Yidn shreibt und farshreit!' (Jews write and record!). George Salton fulfills Dubnow's legacy in a faithful manner. This is a book to be read and passed down to our children. - Miles Lerman, chairman emeritus, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Author InformationGeorge Lucius Salton emigrated to the United States after liberation. He earned degrees in physics and engineering and had a successful career in the U.S. Department of Defense and private industry. He lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |