When German troops come to the small village of Be³zyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp in Flossenbürg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry. Coauthor Alicia Nitecki, whose grandfather was also imprisoned at Flossenbürg, uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story, as well as unpublished memoirs, private letters, and interviews with former inmates of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and the townspeople of Be³zyce and Flossenbürg. Part history, part autobiography, Jakub's World offers an anguished young boy's perspective on the Holocaust.
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A boy's world is shattered by the Holocaust.
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Alicia Nitecki is Associate Professor of English at Bentley College. She is the author of Recovered Land and the translator of several works, including We Were in Auschwitz by Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Krystyn Olszewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Jack Terry is a psychoanalyst living in New York, where he specializes in the treatment of Holocaust survivors.
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Wonderful story of World War II Flossenburg from a boys perspective. Something we should never forget, very moving story.
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Five-year-old Jakub Szabmacher sits on the floor in the center of the front row of a group of children posing for a photograph. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carl Schrade, Herszel Zancberg, Milos Kucera, Kommandant Koegel, Major Gray, Max Koegel, Anton Uhl, Jakub Szabmacher, Rabbi Stockhammer, Reinhold Feix, Adjutant Baumgartner, Chaim Szabmacher, Colonel Leland, Jews of Belzyce, Josef Muller, Lawrence Salter, Bluma Szabmacher, Chaim Arbajtman, Eastern Front, Hans Aumeier, Sergeant Feix, United States New!
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Five-year-old Jakub Szabmacher sits on the floor in the center of the front row of a group of children posing for a photograph. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carl Schrade, Herszel Zancberg, Milos Kucera, Kommandant Koegel, Major Gray, Max Koegel, Anton Uhl, Jakub Szabmacher, Rabbi Stockhammer, Reinhold Feix, Adjutant Baumgartner, Chaim Szabmacher, Colonel Leland, Jews of Belzyce, Josef Muller, Lawrence Salter, Bluma Szabmacher, Chaim Arbajtman, Eastern Front, Hans Aumeier, Sergeant Feix, United States New!
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This book cites 2
books:
- Pan Tadeusz/English and Polish Text by Adam Mickiewicz on page 5
- Adolf Hitler by Colin Cross on page 78
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