Mendelevski's Box

by Roger Swindells

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  Nanette (b. 1929) was a classmate of Anne Frank in the Jewish Lyceum of Amsterdam. They met again in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before Anne died.

  A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience. Mama’s survival from Lithuania to America by Ettie Zilber.

  In her own words, Zlata Sidrer tells the story of how her life in Kaunas, Lithuania, changed forever with the Nazi occupation in 1940. Gone was her dream of becoming a doctor—instead she found herself trapped in the Ghetto along with the rest of the town’s surviving Jewish population, before being transported to Stutthof Concentration Camp and eventually taken on the infamous Death March through the freezing Polish winter.

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  Lovingly compiled from recorded interviews by Zlata’s daughter Ettie, this is the account of a remarkable woman who raised herself out of the ashes after unimaginable hardship and sorrow. Finding happiness where none could be expected—like secretly getting married in the Ghetto—Zlata was a model to her children.

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  Rescued from the Ashes. The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto by Leokadia Schmidt.

  The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment and survived the Holocaust hidden on the “Aryan” side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith’s shed.