Three generations speak about the effect of the Holocaust on their lives. Part one is the moving, first person account of the author’s father, Israel, in the Concentration Camps of Treblinka, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Matthausen. Part two is the author’s analysis of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation who were raised under the shadow of the Holocaust. Yet a third generation speaks, in the voice of Israel’s granddaughters, the daughters of David. Their poignant, eloquent poetry and prose attest to the need to keep the memory of what their grandfather went through, alive.
David Mittelberg, Ph.D., serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Kibbutz Research at Haifa University, Israel. He is also Director of the Department of Sociology at Oranim, The Academic College of Education, where he is also currently the Chairperson and Co-Founder of Project Oren: Kibbutz Institute for Jewish Experience. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies and in the Department of Sociology, both at Harvard University. Dr. Mittelberg is the author of
The Israel Connection and American Jews (1999) and
Strangers in Paradise: The Israeli Kibbutz Experience (1988). He has served as the acting Chairperson of the Israeli Forum and as a member of the Board of the Israeli Forum and its Executive Committee.
“No matter how familiar one may be with the record of the Holocaust, reading this book will provide profound and moving new understanding and perspective.” David M. Gordis, Ph.D., President and Professor of Rabbinics Hebrew College, Newton, MA
“Israel Mittelberg’s detailed and searing account of his personal survival of the Holocaust is followed by his son David’s testament to the lessons learned and applied in his life as an Israeli. Together, these deeply personal reflections complete the circle: from death to life, despair to hope and defeat to survival. To read this book is to feel the pain of human suffering and the power of the human spirit.” Steven A. Rakitt, CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
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