Kukielka Escape from the Pit

A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939–1943
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9479-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Excelsior Editions

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kukielka, Renia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the 1947 English-language edition
Ludwig Lewisohn
“Autobiographical” note appearing in the 1947 English-language edition
Acknowledgments
Asya Kovnat
Introduction
Severin Hochberg

1. The First Years

2. Homeless

3. The Bendzin Kibbutz

4. In the Toils of the Gestapo

5. Rescue

gallery of photographs follows page 138
Afterword: Life after Escape
Asya Kovnat, with Paulina Ezer
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Renia Kukielka was born in Jedrzejow, Poland, in 1924. During World War II, she was a member of the Zionist youth resistance in Poland. Following her escape to British Mandate Palestine in 1944, she wrote her memoir, Bindudim Uvamachteret: 1939–1943 B'Polin (While Wandering and in the Underground: 1939–1943 in Poland), which was published before the war ended. She died in Haifa, Israel, in 2014.