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I sang to survive : memories of Rachov, Auschwitz and a new beginning in America

Title: I sang to survive : memories of Rachov, Auschwitz and a new beginning in America / Judith Schneiderman with Jennifer Schneiderman ; edited by Adam Kerpel-Fronius and Uwe Neumärker.
Author: Schneiderman, Judith, 1928-2018
Publication: [Berlin] : Stiftung Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas, 2018.

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Description

201 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

Memoirs of a Holocaust survivor, Judith Schneiderman (née Rosenberg), who recounts her childhood in the small town of Rachov in the Carpathian Mountains in prewar Czechoslovakia and Hungary, her internment at the Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, and Sömmerda concentration camps winning over the hearts of her guards and their superiors with her beautiful singing voice, and her resettlement in the United States after the war carving out a new life as a farmer's and restaurant owner's wife in Flemington, New Jersey

Uniform Title

Ich sang um mein Leben. English

Alternative Title

Ich sang um mein Leben.

Subject

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.

Note

Published in German under title: Ich sang um mein Leben. Berlin : Stiftung Denkman für die ermorden Juden Europas, 2013

Contents

Introduction -- Rachov -- Holocaust -- Liberation, April 1945 -- Pinek's [Paul's] story -- America -- The farm -- Final words -- Chronological history and remembrances of the Rosenberg family -- Coda / Jennifer Schneiderman (Schulz) -- Afterword: "On the edge of Europe"---the fate of the Carpathian Jews / Adam Kerpel-Fronius

Call Number

JFD 21-2214

ISBN

9783942240321
3942240327

OCLC

1084291067

Author

Schneiderman, Judith, 1928-2018, author.

Title

I sang to survive : memories of Rachov, Auschwitz and a new beginning in America / Judith Schneiderman with Jennifer Schneiderman ; edited by Adam Kerpel-Fronius and Uwe Neumärker.

Publisher

[Berlin] : Stiftung Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas, 2018.

Edition

1st English edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Schneiderman, Jennifer, 1978- author.

Kerpel-Fronius, Adam, 1975- editor, writer of afterword.

Neumärker, Uwe, 1970- editor.

Stiftung Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas, issuing body.

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JFD 21-2214

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