Staying Human Through the Holocaust
by Terez Mozes
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Terøz Møzes was born in Romania in 1919 to a stable and loving family. Her idyllic life would eventually be shattered by the upheavals of the Second World War as the Nazis systematically undertook the destruction of the Jewish race. Starting with the insidious and menacing anti-Jewish laws and continuing with resettlement into cramped ghettos and finally deportation to the death camps, Terøz and her sister Erzsi would be thrust into a harrowing journey that would forever alter the course show more of their lives. In June 1944, Terøz and Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror. Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare, yet their homecoming would be delayed by widespread confusion as the Russians swept through Eastern Europe crushing the Nazi regime. After internment in numerous Russian camps and an uncertain future, Terøz and Ezri finally returned to their shattered hometown of Oradea in August 1945. Staying Human Through the Holocaust, originally titled Beverzett kotøblak ("Shattered Tablets"), was published in Hungarian in 1993 and in Romanian in 1995. Told in a direct and riveting style that will haunt the reader long after the story is over, this memoir is a glimpse of the darkest and most uplifting aspects of our humanity from both an individual and historical point of view. show lessTags
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A better-than-average Holocaust memoir. The author was 25 when she, her parents and her sisters were sent to Auschwitz in 1944. Her parents and one of her sisters were gassed there. Terez and her other sister spent only a few days in Auschwitz before being sent to Latvia. Theirs was one of the first camps to be liberated, in October 1944, but their troubles didn't end there.
I especially liked the details of Terez and her sister's struggle after their liberation. A lot of books make it sound like liberation was all roses and butterflies, and I'm sure for some people it probably was. But Terez, her sister and her friends, all of them starving, most of them ill, were left to fend for themselves with almost no help whatsoever. They were show more detained in a prison camp by the Russians and spent months wandering around northern Europe on foot in the wintertime, scrounging for food where they could get it. show less
I especially liked the details of Terez and her sister's struggle after their liberation. A lot of books make it sound like liberation was all roses and butterflies, and I'm sure for some people it probably was. But Terez, her sister and her friends, all of them starving, most of them ill, were left to fend for themselves with almost no help whatsoever. They were show more detained in a prison camp by the Russians and spent months wandering around northern Europe on foot in the wintertime, scrounging for food where they could get it. show less
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 940.53 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- World War II, 1939-1945
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- DS135 .R72 .O674313 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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