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Out of the depths : the story of a child of Buchenwald who returned home at last / Israel Meir Lau ; forewords by Shimon Peres and Elie Wiesel ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Setbon and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt.
- Title
- Out of the depths : the story of a child of Buchenwald who returned home at last / Israel Meir Lau ; forewords by Shimon Peres and Elie Wiesel ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Setbon and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt.
- Author
- Laʼu, Y. M. (Yiśraʼel Meʼir)
- Publication
- New York : Sterling Pub. : In conjunction with OU Press, c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | BM755.L365 A3 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 380 p., [16] leave of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest concentration camps and how he managed to survive against all possible odds. Lau, who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, also chronicles his life after the war, including his emigration to Mandate Palestine during a period that coincides with the development of the State of Israel. The story continues up to today, with that once-lost boy of eight now a brilliant, charismatic and world-revered figure who has visited with Popes John Paul and Benedict; the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.
- Uniform Title
- Al tishlaḥ yadkha el ha-naʻar. English
- Alternative Title
- Al tishlaḥ yadkha el ha-naʻar.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Translation of: Al tishlaḥ yadkha el ha-naʻar.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. The knife, the fire, and the wood -- pt. 2. The ram's horn.
- ISBN
- 9781402786310 (hardcover)
- 140278631X (hardcover)
- 9781402790959 (ebook)
- 1402790953 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2011275304
- OCLC
- 707260613
- SCSB-11654922
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library