Research Catalog

Title

Strange and unexpected love : a teenage girl's Holocaust memoirs / Fanya Gottesfeld Heller ; foreword by Irving Greenberg.

Author

Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : Ktav Pub. House, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xvi, 279 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Memoirs of a Jewish woman, born in 1924 in Skala, Poland (now Ukraine). Relates the German anti-Jewish measures, actions, deportations, and mass killings. She was saved by a Ukrainian militiaman who fell in love with her, and hid her and her family. Her father was killed just after the liberation; the rest of the family emigrated to the U.S.

Subject

• Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld
• Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld
• 1939-1945
• Jews > Ukraine > Skala-Podilʹsʹka > Biography
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Ukraine > Skala-Podilʹsʹka > Personal narratives
• Jewish girls > Ukraine > Skala-Podilʹsʹka > Biography
• Jewish girls
• Jews
• Erlebnisbericht
• Juden
• Rettung
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Ukraine > Skala-Podil's'ka > Personal narratives
• Jewish girls > Ukraine > Skala-Podil's'ka > Biography
• Jews > Ukraine > Skala-Podil's'ka > Biography
• Skala-Podilʹsʹka (Ukraine) > Biography
• Ukraine > Skala-Podilʹsʹka
• Skala-Podol'skaya
• Skala-Podilʹsʹka (Ukraine) > Biography
• Juden

Genre/Form

• Biography
• collective biographies.
• Biographies.
• Personal narratives.

Contents

Escape (September 26-29,1942) -- Growing up in Skala (1924-1941) -- Under the German boot (Summer 1941-September 1942) -- Hiding after the Aktsia (September 1942-August 1943) -- Under Sidor's wing (August 1943-March 1944) -- Liberation (March 1944-July 1945) -- Bytom (August-December 1945).

ISBN

• 0881254673
• 9780881254679
• 0881253319 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780881253313 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

93025613

OCLC

• ocm28332593
• 28332593
• SCSB-14430596

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library