Vanished Boyhood

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THE AZRIELI SERIES OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR MEMOIRS Established to preserve and share the written memoirs of those who survived the twentieth-century Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe and later made their way to Canada. As soon as I heard the airplane engines I ran upstairs to watch the bombers approaching. It was dangerous, but I wasn't scared. Iprayed to God that those American planes would destroy the Nazis and thefactories so we all could be free again. One month before George Stern's thirteenth birthday, Germany invades his native Hungary. Anti-Jewish edicts are passed and a ghetto is established. A rebel even then, George refuses to wear the Jewish star. "Passing" as a Christian boy, he survives the siege of Budapest as the Soviet Red Army presses closer, strafing the city while the fascist Arrow Cross continues to hunt for Jews. After the war, George leaves Europe for Israel and fights in the War of Independence. Over the next twenty years his family's journeys take them from... Tovább

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THE AZRIELI SERIES OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR MEMOIRS Established to preserve and share the written memoirs of those who survived the twentieth-century Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe and later made their way to Canada. As soon as I heard the airplane engines I ran upstairs to watch the bombers approaching. It was dangerous, but I wasn't scared. Iprayed to God that those American planes would destroy the Nazis and thefactories so we all could be free again. One month before George Stern's thirteenth birthday, Germany invades his native Hungary. Anti-Jewish edicts are passed and a ghetto is established. A rebel even then, George refuses to wear the Jewish star. "Passing" as a Christian boy, he survives the siege of Budapest as the Soviet Red Army presses closer, strafing the city while the fascist Arrow Cross continues to hunt for Jews. After the war, George leaves Europe for Israel and fights in the War of Independence. Over the next twenty years his family's journeys take them from Israel to Sáo Paulo, Brazil and finally to Toronto. Fiiled with determination and bravery, this is alsó the poignant account of George Stern's Vanished Boyhood. "The Azrieli Foundation Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program is a historically and humanly compelling project [that] allows the last survivors to teli their personal stories Their morál authority in the field of remembrance is incomparable." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate The Azrieli Foundation's Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program is a notfor-profit program. All revenues to the Azrieli Foundation from the sales of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs go toward the publishing and educational work of the Memoirs Program. Vissza