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1 comments about Our Only Hope: Eddie's Holocaust Story and the Weisz Family Correspondence (Studies of the Shoah).

1. Dr. Keith Pickus, Associate Provost and Associate Professor of History at Wichita State University, has written a touching story using a series of letters between his Uncle Eddie and Eddie's Mother, Father and brother. In June of 1938, just shy of his 21st birthday, Eddie Weisz left his parents in Berlin to come to the United States to prepare the way for his family to join him in the United States. As the family obviously takes pride in Eddie's successful adaptation to life in the States, the worry, fear and desperation of his Mother and Father are also clear as their efforts to leave Europe are continually frustrated by bureaucracy, political and military changes in Germany, timing, and, perhaps, bad luck. As the Weisz' move from Berlin to Prague to escape increasing difficulties, hardships and humiliations, and as conditions become more difficult, more stressful and more frightening, the letters of Heinrich, Johanna and Ernst Weisz are nevertheless hopeful to the end. Dr. Pickus does a wonderful job of providing historical and familial insights at key points in the book, making the letters even more moving, informational and significant. The correspondence begins with a letter dated June 13, 1938, after the family has returned home from putting Eddie on the train to head west...the last was dated November 11, 1941; of course, at the time, Eddie had no way to know it would be the last communication he would have from his family.

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1 comments about A Stranger and Afraid.

1. This book takes you back to Arthur's life when he was 8 years old and evacuated from London to the country for his safety in World War 2. It has many highs and lows and you wonder how any of the evacuess coped with such a drastic change in their young lives. It is thoroughly captivating to see how he survives his new school, religion and way of life.
   A story which should be told to all and every generation.

5 comments about Holocaust Survivor.

1. I am utterly amazed at what this man went through. I have read alot about the holocaust but every survivor has a different story and there is always something that will shock you with every story. The horrors of what happened will never cease to shock me, never. This man has written a memoire that is packed with people and events than do not allow you to put this book down. It is very interesting to read and through all the horror you are glad to know that he made it through and had done so many wonderfull things with his life. I finished this book very quickly due to the fact it was hard to put down. I would recomend this book highly not only because it is so interesting but because it will allow to to understand how blessed we all are, you might just will change the way you live and think.



2. I am leading a group of five High School Seniors in an independent study about the Holocaust. This work, Holocaust Survivor, is a great resource. It is a raw, transcribed oral history of one man's journey. My students have found it very moving and informative.



3. Mike came to our school in October and shared a VERY SAD story with us and shode us some very strange things like the soup made of human Fat and a little bottle of poison.And much more but I cant remember them all well I REALLY want to buy his book to see alot more stuff about it!!



4. Some people write books for money or recognition - not Mike Jacobs.

   His whole message - both in person and in his book - urges each one of us to "always remember, never forget," and to "never become silent or complacent." This message at first seemed somewhat obvious from what one might expect from a survivor.

   But Mike has a different spin on his message: He doesn't hate, and he doesn't feel self pity. Rather, he's exhuberant in his mission to live life to its fullest, and along the way, to explain what he lived through so no one human being ever has to face it again.

   His book is incredible - not just one to add to any collection; rather, your interest in a survivor's tale and triumph over such horrifying persecution should start right here with Mike. Let him tell you what really happened as he lived it first hand...and walk away with the message he lives every day to pass on to us, our children and their children.




5. "I was never a teenager...I lived on less than 800 calories a day...I was tortured; I was beaten; I've got scars on my face, but I always stood up. I always bounced back." Holocaust Survivor chronicles the five and a half years Mike Jacobs, founder of The Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, spent as a youth in the ghettos and concentration camps of Poland including Auschwitz/Birkenau and Mauthausen/Gusen II. From the age of fifteen to nineteen, Mike witnessed and was subjected to horrors that no one should ever have to endure, including the infamous Death March in the dead of winter out of Auschwitz-Birkenau. He spares no detail in the retelling of the events he lived through, from the "beautiful dolls" and sadistic SS Sergeant of the Ostrowiec Ghetto, to the risky business of sabotaging the Messerschmidts he worked on as part of the camp resistance. Mike credits his survival to three things: his faith, his unfailing belief that he would one day be free, and his ability to dream. It is this underlying note of positive thinking that I think makes Mike's story different and eminently readable for all ages. Mike easily makes us believe that, despite the darkness and despair surrounding him, he did, indeed, rely on his dreams and soaring imagination to keep hope alive. His concentration camp friends thought "Mendel is getting off his rocker," but Mike felt the secret of survival was to close his eyes and soar high above the camp like a bird. "Guys, you wouldn't believe it! It was beautiful--I traveled all over the world, I was free!" This incredible story of spirit, endurance, and triumph over impossible odds is punctuated with Mike's message: "Hate breeds hate. But we cannot be silent or complacent. If we are, this can happen again." Thank you, Mike, for all the times you've spoken to my students, touched their hearts, moved them to tears, and ultimately, made them a formidable force for change.

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