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" Never far away : "
edited by Sheldon Schwartz ; introduction by Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr ; afterword by Joel Prager.
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BL
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696407
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b518596
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| Main Entry
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Heilman, Anna,1928-
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Never far away : : the Auschwitz chronicles of Anna Heilman /\ edited by Sheldon Schwartz ; introduction by Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr ; afterword by Joel Prager.
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Calgary :: University of Calgary Press,, c2001.
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xxv, 159 p. :: ill., ports. ;; 23 cm.
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1552380408
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: 9781552380406
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / Sheldon Schwartz -- Introduction / Dieter K. Buse, Juergen C. Doerr -- Jews and Poles to 1939 -- The Warsaw Ghetto -- Auschwitz -- The Holocaust: Understanding the Incomprehensible -- Memoirs -- Anna Heilman's Biography before and after Auschwitz -- Warsaw before World War II -- The Warsaw Ghetto -- Majdanek -- Arrival at Majdanek -- In Majdanek -- Auschwitz -- The October 1944 Uprising -- Premonition -- Estusia's Last Letter -- The Executions -- The Ghost of the Past is Never Far Away -- Afterword / Joel Prager.
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"Anna Heilman was born into the comfort and security of an assimilated Jewish family in prewar Warsaw. Her happy life was shattered when German troops overran Poland in September 1939 and the Jewish people in Warsaw were gradually segregated into a "Jewish Quarter." Anna and her family were captured and taken from this ghetto and shipped first to Majdanek (where her parents were killed almost immediately), and then on to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anna's sister was hanged by camp authorities in January 1945 for the role she played in blowing up one of Birkenau's crematoria in October of 1944. Never Far Away provides insight into the courage and ingenuity of the rebels who worked in an armament factory and how they smuggled gunpowder back to their barracks to destroy the gas chambers. The diary's entries reflect an immediacy and a self-conscious awareness of the enormity of what was happening. At the same time, they present the point of view of someone utterly and ultimately powerless to influence this larger course of events. Never Far Away documents the loss of childhood innocence and the triumph of human spirit against crushing oppression. The book contains a foreword by historians Juergen Doerr and Dieter Buse and an afterword by Joel Prager."--BOOK JACKET.
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Heilman, Anna,1928-
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Poland, Personal narratives.
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Jews-- Poland, Biography.
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Poland, Biography.
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