Research Catalog

Title

Who are you, Mr. Grymek? / Natan Gross ; translated by William R. Brand.

Author

Gross, Natan, 1919-2005.

Publication

London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2001.

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Details

Description

330 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Who Are You, Mr. Grymek? describes the dramatic struggle of a Jewish family for survival. It is divided into two parts. The first, 'Such a Home it Was', depicts the life of the author's affluent family in Cracow, where before the war 60,000 Jewish citizens lived. Natan Gross's parents were proprietors of the widely known chinaware, crystal and ceramics firm, Jacob Gross. He and his brothers and sister attended the Hebrew school and throughout this section the author's love for his beautiful home town shines through." "Part Two, 'On the Narrow Footbridge', shows how this pleasant existence was shattered by the Nazis' invasion of Poland. Natan's father escaped with one of his sons to Lwow, but his longed-for wish to rejoin his family was never fulfilled. His courageous wife managed to escape with her children to Warsaw, where they lived on borrowed identities as Christian Poles." "Experiencing, on the one hand, immense adversities, denunciations and arrests, and, on the other, miraculous rescues, incredible escapes and the occasional example of human kindness, they survived until the end of the war, but just when liberation was in sight the uprising of Warsaw in August 1944 brought fresh troubles. However, Natan put his trust in human nature - and survived."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The library of Holocaust testimonies

Uniform Title

• Mi atah, Adon Grimeḳ? English
• Library of Holocaust testimonies

Alternative Title

• Mi atah, Adon Grimeḳ?
• Who are you, Mister Grymek?

Subject

• Gross, Natan, 1919-2005
• Gross, Natan, 1919-2005
• 1939-1945
• Jews > Persecutions > Poland > Kraków
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Kraków > Personal narratives
• Ethnic relations
• Jews > Persecutions
• Illegalität
• Judenvernichtung
• Kraków (Poland) > Ethnic relations
• Poland > Kraków
• Krakau
• Polen
• Juden

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives.
• Récits personnels.

Contents

The Library of Holocaust Testimonies / Martin Gilbert -- Foreword / Rafael F. Scharf -- Such a Home it Was ... -- Having Been Born in Cracow -- Branches From the Family Tree: the Shop on the Corner of Szewska Street -- Home, Sweet Home -- Learning Came Easy -- Portraits -- A Manuscript Found in a Cellar -- The Two Faces of Leon Przemski -- The Death of a Philosopher and the History of a Manuscript -- Abraham Neuman: The Portrait of a Jeweler -- A Romantic Story -- Faces From Our Class Photograph -- On a Narrow Footbridge -- Everything Comes Tumbling Down -- The Coffee Pot -- Papers, Papers -- Father's Death -- Pages From a Diary, 1942 -- Cracow Did Not Let Us Down -- The Extortion Game -- Like Hunted Animals -- Niemcewicza Street From the Front, and Asnyka From the Rear -- A Race with Time -- The Irreplaceable Nina -- Mr Moeller--Two Arkadiuszes--Korczak from Cracow -- Bella -- Janek and Janina go to Jadziny -- Why Maria Went to Auschwitz and Klara to Zakopane -- Habent Sua Fata Papieri -- Cracow Autumn.

ISBN

• 0853034117
• 9780853034117

LCCN

00054548

OCLC

• ocm45630123
• 45630123
• SCSB-1228299

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library