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Books
- Holocaust Literature
Chimera
A Period of Madness
Bourla, Isaac
$15
At the age of 15 Isaac Bourla was taken from his home in Salonika to become one of the youngest prisoners in the Buna and Buchenwald camps. This powerful memoir based on notes Bourla jotted down beginning two months after his liberation, describes his thoughts and impressions of the darkest years of his life. This is the third volume in the Sephardi and Greek Holocaust Library Series.
Books
- Holocaust Literature
The
Holocaust in Salonica: Eyewitness Accounts, edited, with
introductory essay by Steven Bowman and translated from
Greek and Judeo-Spanish with introductions and notes by
Isaac Benmayor
Eyewitness Accounts
Bowman,
Benmayor
$15
The accounts presented in the book are three
of the basic sources for the post war memory of the Holocaust
among Salonikan Jews and constitute the first official
witness of those tragic years. Yomtov Yacoel was the lawyer
for the Community and liaison with the Nazi civilian Representatives.
Dr. Matarasso was the post war physician for the survivors
in Salonika. His report includes the earliest eyewitness
stories of the fate of the Jews in Auschwitz. Salomon
Uziel provides the unique perspective of a Community leader
and his fate after the war. This is the first volume in
the new series, The Sephardi and Greek Holocaust Library
published by Sephardic House.
Books
- Holocaust Literature
Monastir Without Jews: Recollections of a Jewish Partisan in Macedonia
Kolonomos,
Jamila Andjela
$18.95
This personal memoir recalls the fate of Monastir’s Jewish Community during the Holocaust, as well as an eyewitness account of the Jewish presence in the Yugoslav Resistance, as recalled by a highly decorated Jewish Partisan from Yugoslavia.
For a Greek Jew
like Heinz Salvator Kounio, the ability to speak German saved
his life, and the lives of his family. In this powerful memoir,
Kounio meticulously describes his experience in Auschwitz
and other camps. The book’s title refers to the daily
rations for prisoners: there was never enough, and the soup
was often made of potato peels, the bread from sawdust. The
book, adapted and translated by Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos,
is the second volume in the Sephardic and Greek Holocaust
Library.
Books
- Holocaust Literature
And
The World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust
$15 
