Research Catalog

Title

Jakub's world : a boy's story of loss and survival in the holocaust / Alicia Nitecki and Jack Terry ; afterword by Jörg Skriebeleit.

Author

Nitecki, Alicia, 1942-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Terry, Jack, 1930-

Description

ix, 154 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

"When German troops come to the small village of Belzyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry. Coauthor Alicia Nitecki, whose grandfather was also imprisoned at Flossenburg, uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story, as well as unpublished memoirs, private letters, and interviews with former inmates of the Flossenburg concentration camp and the townspeople of Belzyce and Flossenburg. Part history, part autobiography, Jakub's World offers an anguished young boy's perspective on the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Jewish children in the Holocaust > Biography
• Kazimierz Dolny (Poland) > Biography
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Kazimierz Dolny > Biography
• Jews > Poland > Kazimierz Dolny > Biography
• Szabmacher, Jakub

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154).

ISBN

• 0791464075 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0791464083 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004016209

OCLC

• ocm56032788
• SCSB-5180558

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries