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These 36 personal recollections include stories of survivors of the Holocaust's concentration camps, of partisans and liberators, and of Zionists. There's the story of a rabbinical student, his wife, and their three-year-old daughter struggling to survive in the Vilna Ghetto; a story in which a family escaped from Germany in 1940 and came to the U.S., bringing with them a Torah scroll from a Hamburg synagogue; and another in which a Czech teacher survived the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. The 140 photographs from the collection of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City include sepia and black-and-white prints of children and their parents in Poland, Lithuania, France, Italy, and Greece; a photo of a workshop in the Lodz Ghetto; one of a page from the Passover Haggadah handwritten in Hebrew; and a wedding photograph taken in 1921 in Germany. These extraordinary recollections not only document the horrors of the Holocaust but also extol the continuity of Jewish life. George Cohen This book deserves a place in every home. Reading it--and having your grandchildren and theirs read it--is an important way to preserve the memories of the Holocaust while honoring those who were killed as well as those who survived. Edward I. Koch I know of only one way to prepare for the joys and pains of life, and it is to grasp the stories of the past. Words and images like this, which record and shape memory, inform the future and make it welcome. Max Frankel

"""These 36 personal recollections include stories of survivors of the Holocaust's concentration camps, of partisans and liberators, and of Zionists. There's the story of a rabbinical student, his wife, and their three-year-old daughter struggling to survive in the Vilna Ghetto; a story in which a family escaped from Germany in 1940 and came to the U.S., bringing with them a Torah scroll from a Hamburg synagogue; and another in which a Czech teacher survived the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. The 140 photographs from the collection of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City include sepia and black-and-white prints of children and their parents in Poland, Lithuania, France, Italy, and Greece; a photo of a workshop in the Lodz Ghetto; one of a page from the Passover Haggadah handwritten in Hebrew; and a wedding photograph taken in 1921 in Germany. These extraordinary recollections not only document the horrors of the Holocaust but also extol the continuity of Jewish life."" George Cohen""This book deserves a place in every home. Reading it--and having your grandchildren and theirs read it--is an important way to preserve the memories of the Holocaust while honoring those who were killed as well as those who survived."" Edward I. Koch ""I know of only one way to prepare for the joys and pains of life, and it is to grasp the stories of the past. Words and images like this, which record and shape memory, inform the future and make it welcome."" Max Frankel"

These 36 personal recollections include stories of survivors of the Holocaust's concentration camps, of partisans and liberators, and of Zionists. There's the story of a rabbinical student, his wife, and their three-year-old daughter struggling to survive in the Vilna Ghetto; a story in which a family escaped from Germany in 1940 and came to the U.S., bringing with them a Torah scroll from a Hamburg synagogue; and another in which a Czech teacher survived the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. The 140 photographs from the collection of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City include sepia and black-and-white prints of children and their parents in Poland, Lithuania, France, Italy, and Greece; a photo of a workshop in the Lodz Ghetto; one of a page from the Passover Haggadah handwritten in Hebrew; and a wedding photograph taken in 1921 in Germany. These extraordinary recollections not only document the horrors of the Holocaust but also extol the continuity

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust opened its doors in 1997, and is recognized as a site of great cultural and historical importance. Its mission is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds on Jewish life in the 20th century through its collection of 20,000 artifacts, photographs, and videotapes. Robert M. Morgenthau, former district attorney for New York County, is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Jewish Heritage. David G. Marwell is the Museum's Director and former Associate Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

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