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Chutzpe un draystkayt : a teenager with chutzpah and tenacity in the Holocaust / Elka Ekstein.
- Title
- Chutzpe un draystkayt : a teenager with chutzpah and tenacity in the Holocaust / Elka Ekstein.
- Author
- Ekstein, Elka, 1928-
- Publication
- South Caulfield, Vic. : Makor Jewish Community Library, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DS135.B383 E47 2006 | Off-site |
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- Makor Jewish Community Library (Caulfield South, Vic.)
- Description
- 93 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Memoirs of a Jew born in Grodno in 1928 to the Fomin family, one of ten children. Pp. 9-44 recount Ekstein's experiences in the Holocaust. In 1941 the Germans occupied Grodno and a ghetto was established. Ekstein risked her life daily to smuggle food for her family. In October 1941 a second ghetto was formed and transports to death camps began from there. The parents and six of the children, including Ekstein, were deported in January 1943; however, Ekstein and one of her sisters, Sonia, jumped from the train and walked, seperately, to the Białystok ghetto. There they survived two roundups, but were caught in November 1943, after three months of hiding in a bunker. They were deported to Auschwitz via Stutthof. The sisters survived one year in Birkenau and Auschwitz, after which they were forced on a death march to Ravensbrück and Neustadt Gleiwitz. After the liberation they returned to Białystok. Ekstein married in Warsaw in 1947 and emigrated to Australia in 1951, after some years in Sweden. She never found out what happened to the rest of her family.
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- Biographies
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- ISBN
- 1876733667
- 9781876733667
- OCLC
- 163582257
- SCSB-12579366
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- Harvard Library