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Our Holocaust Paperback – February 3, 2012

by Amir Guttfreund (Author)
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  • Paperback: 418 pages
  • Publisher: AmazonCrossing (February 3, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1611091209
  • ISBN-13: 978-1611091205
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA must read!
By Armchair Interviews on June 13, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Israeli prize winner Amir Gutfreund debuts with an astonishing chronicle of two young children's abilities and inabilities to understand what happened "over there" in Our Holocaust.

The author takes the stage as a fictional character along with Effi, the only other child on Katznelson Street in Kiryat Haim. As members of the second-and-a-half generation to the Shoah (the Holocaust), they try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together--from the bits and pieces they are given--because they are not "Old Enough" to comprehend.

Amir is the more questioning of two, begging for stories and information. Fifty years may have passed but the Shoah's survivors are still haunted. As the children age and become "Old Enough" to learn the truth, Amir becomes obsessed with learning more. He interviews the family--everyone who survived is now a relative, not so much as by blood as shared experiences--and collects their stories.

One of the more unusual characters is Attorney Perl, not for what he remembers or what he experienced in the camps. He, too, keeps records. Not about the atrocities, but about what happened to those who committed them. What happened to the Nazis after liberation? Ask Attorney Perl. Behind the wall of his hardware store is a wall of little drawers. Amir at first believes they contain the store's inventory, but when he's finally "Old Enough," he learns that the drawers are crammed with index cards full of notations, sentences, releases, and deaths of Nazi party members.

Our Holocaust takes readers on two voyages. One is through the minds of the survivors and their children, and another is through the camps. It takes readers through the ghettos where the Nazis perform the "Aktions" and the "Selektions" of who stays, goes, and who dies on the spot.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBest "Second-and-a-half" Generation Book Ever
By Ally on March 27, 2012
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If Elie Wiesel's "Night," is fiction, then "Our Holocaust," by Amir Gutfreund fits into the same category. I have waited a long time for a book as well-written as this one, on a subject that is never, ever funny. All one can hope for as a reader is to get an unsentimentalized picture that makes one consider a fuller perspective on the subject. Gutfreund does this, and more.

Gutfreund re-creates an entire neighborhood in Israel from his childhood, as it was lived among Holocaust survivors who desired to keep their past from damaging the "2nd and a half" generation. Unexpected comedy is created by this fantastic author, as he writes of the devious, childish tricks used by Amir and Effie in the book to get around their Grandpa Yosef's stern edict that nobody talks about the past to these curious children. The neighbors are charming, engrossing in their dysfunction, and captivate the reader immediately.

As the boy grows up, he continues to search for complete stories from these broken souls. He himself becomes damaged by some of the knowledge he learns, and ends up looking for ways to make peace with the complexity of the pains he uncovers. Some of the other reviewers are better equipped than I to address the potential political implications of the fictional protagonist's musings. I was just glad to finally read something that was balanced and beautiful in the depiction of the familial love for these wrecks and ruins of people as they steer--unwitttingly sometimes--towards each person's individual end or "documentation" of what had happened to them, what was lost in the past.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe way the author presented his view of the holocaust was quite amazing. It really got to me and made what ...
By Bette Parris on July 11, 2014
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This was a book I couldn't put down. The way the author presented his view of the holocaust was quite amazing. It really got to me and made what happened much more meaningful than ever before. I will never know how those people endured what they went through, or how they managed to survive once they survived. I ask myself "why"....how could such a horrific thing happen? I have no answers, or perhaps I have many answers, but the fact remains ....This did happen, and to millions of people.
The author makes it quite clear what a few of the people experienced, both physically and mentally, until I felt my guts ache, and cried.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA stunning, eye-opening read!
By Kindle Customer on August 18, 2013
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I've read two other books since finishing Our Holocaust. They've completely gone out of my mind. Our Holocaust remains. It may take another read to totally digest all the complexities of this work.
This was written from the point of view of second generation Holocaust survivors delving into the stories of their friends, relatives and neighbors in modern day Israel.
While the horrors of the Holocaust have been widely reported, the personal nature of these people, telling their stories to the narrator makes them incredibly real. The manner in which he is affected by their sufferings and the way their experiences shaped their lives all combined to touch this reader deeply.
I highly recommend this book. Expect it to raise questions in your mind about the nature of humanity's ability to harm and to heal. In any case, you will not be unmoved.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA very compelling story - A must read
By Lawrence C on November 12, 2012
Format: Paperback
I highly recommend that you read this novel ... "Our Holocaust" by Israeli author Amir Gutfreund. The main characters are two second generation children of holocaust survivors living on a quiet suburban street in Israel. Having lost much of their real families to the Holocaust the children and their parents assemble substitute grandparents, uncles, etc from the Holocaust survivors in living in the neighborhood.

Drawn to learn more about the lives of these pseudo relatives and trying to understand their sometime unusual behaviors - the children over time learn the individual stories of these "grandparents, uncles, aunts" - their lives before the SHOAH (Holocaust), how they individually survived the death camps (sometimes by sheer happenstance) and how the events shaped them forever.

This first time Israeli author weaves into the tale many historical facts about this dark period including the stark reality that many of the perpetrators of the holocaust from planners of the final Jewish Solution, camp commandants, sadistic guards and others tasked to cleanse Europe of Jews were either not held accountable and lived out their lives amongst ordinary Germans or when tried and sentenced served only a very small portion of their punishment.

Using humor, sometimes black .... the author, Amir Gutfreund compels the reader to ponder whether the world is just a blink away from another SHOAH. After all as he points out many Germans were not cruel in carrying out their duties as guards, trainmen, industrialist utilizing slave labor - yet they still managed to contribute to the effort to eliminate 5 million ethnic minorities and 6 million Jews ..... returning themselves to life as normal after the war.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBest book about children of Holocaust survivors

Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund captures in a unique way the pain and anxiety children of survivors feel growing up knowing that something awful has happened to their parents but... Read more

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Amazing book, which sounds like first hand account. It is so believable. Amir Gutfreund had deep understanding of suffering souls and knew well how the second generation growing... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Teresa
5.0 out of 5 starsIncredible work of writing

One of the best holocaust books I have read in the last 45 to 50 years. It is innovative insightful and captivating. I couldn't put it down. The English translation is masterful.

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Published 3 months ago by vivi
5.0 out of 5 starsAn amazing revelation

At times, I thought I would never finish this book. Not written and the traditional method of chapters sometimes it was a tedious pursuit. Read more

Published 4 months ago by J. Castro
5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the best Holocaust novels in recent years.

brilliant Holocaust novel.

Published 8 months ago by Leucippe
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

meh

Published 9 months ago by Marian Salamon
4.0 out of 5 starsVery moving... the events it describe are ...

Very moving...the events it describe are very disturbing, but reality...we must never forget.

Published 9 months ago by Beth
5.0 out of 5 starsNew Generation

A different view from the survivor's perspective

Published 11 months ago by April Kniess
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Can't relate - don't live in Israel.

Published 12 months ago by Mo

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