Overview
With the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but she survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Gone was her normal life and her teenage dream of becoming a doctor. Instead, she witnessed untold deprivations, massacres, imprisonment, hunger and slave labor before being transported to the Stutthof Concentration Camp. Her story of the death march is a testament to her fighting spirit and the limits of human endurance. Yet the challenges did not end with liberation. Lovingly compiled from recorded interviews and researched by her eldest daughter, Ettie, this is an account of a remarkably resilient woman who raised herself out of the ashes after unimaginable hardship and sorrow. She found love and happiness where none could be expected—a secret marriage in the ghetto, escapes, dangerous border crossings, reunifications, and life-saving friendships. Ettie’s quest to learn more about her ancestry led her to Lithuania and Poland–in her mother’s footsteps. The author reflects on the impact of her family’s experiences on her own beliefs and behaviors, thereby adding to the literature about Second Generation and transgenerational trauma. In these memoirs she honors her family by telling their amazing story of survival and collects evidence to corroborate their painful history.
Full Product Details
Author: Ettie Zilber
Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
Imprint: Amsterdam Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.303kg
ISBN: 9789493056022
ISBN 10: 9493056023
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 23 January 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Almost eight decades after the Holocaust, it is fading from memory and sometimes even unknown to younger generations - yet the details need to be maintained. Through first-person testimony and archival research, Love and Resilience is a formidable story of one woman's survival from Lithuania to America, told from her perspective as well as that of her Second Generation daughter. It's clear that future generations, just like this individual family, will be grateful this document exists. - Stephen E. Herbits, former Secretary-General, World Jewish Congress A Holocaust Memoir of Love and Resilience is an utterly compelling contribution to Holocaust literature. In these pages, we are privy to crucial, daily triumphs and desolation of Jewish life in Lithuania both before and during the Holocaust through the vivid and haunting recollections of Dr. Zilber's mother. As the author revisits the geography of her parents' lives, she adds her own keen experiences and observations about the places where slaughter and survival still echo, and then the impact of the tragedies on her own life. - Rita Gabis, author of A Guest at the Shooter's Banquet: My Grandfather and the SS, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth There has never been a more urgent need for books like Dr. Ettie Zilber's. With more and more survivors gone, the second generation must carry the twin torches of memory and of hope. This faithful, meticulous, and pure-hearted book does both. - Sonia Taitz, author of The Watchmaker's Daughter and Great with Child
Author Information
Born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after World War 2, Ettie immigrated with her parents to the USA. She grew up and was educated in New York City and Pennsylvania and immigrated to Israel after completing graduate school. After retiring from a career in international schools in 6 countries, she currently resides in Arizona with her husband. She is a Board member for the Phoenix Holocaust Association and devotes much time to giving presentations to youth and adults worldwide.
