My Involuntary Journeys

Hanna Temkin

 

In My Involuntary Journeys, Hanna Temkin shares her story for the first time, shedding light on lesser-known aspects of Jewish life and survival in Eastern Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust. Moreover, Hanna’s story is an inspiring tale of female empowerment and serves as a testament to her ability to overcome the worst odds.

 

NIS 117.00

Father seemed strangely agitated sending me off. “Go,” he said, “Hanele, go, it’s time!” He urged me as if he were glad to see me go; as
if he knew somehow that he was sending me off to live.

The brutal reality of war became part of Hanna Rabinowicz’s life shortly after she turned eighteen. Within days, German troops had conquered her hometown of Lodz, and the situation of the local Jewish community deteriorated quickly. Hanna and her future husband, Gabriel Temkin, made the difficult decision to head East and flee into the Soviet occupation zone, which ultimately saved their lives. During the next six years, Hanna lived, worked, and eventually studied in the Soviet Union, while Gabriel served in the Red Army.

A year after the war, Hanna and Gabriel married and moved back to Poland. Most of their family members had been murdered or had succumbed to the brutal conditions under Nazi rule. Nevertheless, unlike other returnees, they opted to stay in Poland, where they adapted to the political conditions and started a family. Initially, their careers flourished. Two decades later, however, facing growing antisemitism, Hanna and Gabriel saw no other choice but to leave Poland again. Already in their late forties, they had to rebuild their lives once more, this time in the United States.

Father seemed strangely agitated sending me off. “Go,” he said, “Hanele, go, it’s time!” He urged me as if he were glad to see me go; as
if he knew somehow that he was sending me off to live.

The brutal reality of war became part of Hanna Rabinowicz’s life shortly after she turned eighteen. Within days, German troops had conquered her hometown of Lodz, and the situation of the local Jewish community deteriorated quickly. Hanna and her future husband, Gabriel Temkin, made the difficult decision to head East and flee into the Soviet occupation zone, which ultimately saved their lives. During the next six years, Hanna lived, worked, and eventually studied in the Soviet Union, while Gabriel served in the Red Army.

A year after the war, Hanna and Gabriel married and moved back to Poland. Most of their family members had been murdered or had succumbed to the brutal conditions under Nazi rule. Nevertheless, unlike other returnees, they opted to stay in Poland, where they adapted to the political conditions and started a family. Initially, their careers flourished. Two decades later, however, facing growing antisemitism, Hanna and Gabriel saw no other choice but to leave Poland again. Already in their late forties, they had to rebuild their lives once more, this time in the United States.

מפרט המוצר
Year 2023
ISBN 978-965-308-681-4
No. of Pages 448 pp.
Size 23.5X16
כריכה Hard Cover
Publisher Yad Vashem
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בכיתה ה, חוסר הדמיון שלי [להורי] גרם לי לצרוח מול הראי. [...] היה נדמה לי שראיתי בעצמי משהו מתווי פניו של אבא. "אמא, אמא, אני דומה לאבאל'ה! נכון?!" אבל במקום תשובה הייתה דממה. ולי לא נותר אלא לזעוק: "כי אם אני יהודי, עוד תראו מה אעשה לעצמי!״ כמה פחדתי להיות יהודי, כמה לא רציתי להיות יהודי!

 

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Written in a Barn: The Diary of a Young Woman from Vilna

Ruth Leimenzon Engles| Edited by Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky

 

At last, I have gotten a notebook in which to write. I have a pencil. I will try. Maybe it will make it easier to push through the days. It’s hard for me. As soon as dawn breaks, my first thought is: how does one endure until the end of the day.
Ruth Leimenzon Engles, May 15, 1944

A few days after the Germans occupied Vilna at the end of June 1941, Ruth Leimenzon’s husband was seized by local collaborators and was never seen again. Ruth, the sole survivor of her murdered family, managed to survive two years in the ghetto using her intelligence and common sense, helped by luck and perhaps miracles. Just two days before the ghetto’s liquidation in September 1943, Ruth escaped with the help of a Christian woman, her former boss’ wife, and found a hiding place in a barn on a farm 20 kilometers from Vilna, where she hid for nearly a year. During the last two months in the barn, Ruth wrote a diary in Yiddish describing her three-year ordeal.

NIS 104.00

It Happened ON OUR PLANET

Moral Dilemmas among Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust

By Yitzhak Arad

 

It Happened on Our Planet offers a brutally honest insight into the horrifying decisions that the Jews had to make and the unbearable situations in which the Jews found themselves during this time. The publication of this important work presents generations to come with a better understanding of the complex reality of the Holocaust.

 

NIS 182.00

מדיניות הרדיפות וחיי היהודים בגרמניה הנאצית, כרך א': חלק ראשון

מבחר תעודות 1933 - 1945 

עורך: וולף גרונר
עורכי המהדורה: גיא מירון, סוזנה היים

כרך זה פורס לפני הקוראים העבריים מבחר עשיר של תעודות על חיי היהודים בגרמניה הנאצית מעליית המשטר הנאצי עד פרוץ מלחמת העולם השנייה. חלקו הראשון, הרייך הגרמני 1937-1933 , מסתמך על הכרך הראשון בסדרת התעודות הגרמנית על תולדות רדיפתם ורציחתם של יהודי אירופה בידי גרמניה הנאצית:
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945 (VEJ)

 

 התעודות, המסודרות בסדר כרונולוגי, נותנות ביטוי למגוון נקודות מבט על האירועים: של היהודים שחיו בגרמניה תחת המשטר הנאצי; של החברה הגרמנית הלא־יהודית; של יהודים מחוץ לגרמניה; ושל גורמים בין־לאומיים. הן משקפות באופן בלתי אמצעי את תהליכי שלילת זכויותיהם והדרתם של היהודים מן החברה הגרמנית ואת דרכי התמודדותם של היהודים – הן בתור יחידים הן בתור קהילה – עם השלכות הנישול והבידוד החברתי בחיי היום־יום.

NIS 104.00
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