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"During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet they survived. Bluma and Felix's miraculous story of survival, combined with the rise of nationalism and fascism, leading to the extermination of millions of human beings is also a cautionary tale... a dangerous history that, if we do not heed the warning signs, could very well be repeated."--… (más)
A staid and reverential biography of a South Carolina couple who were born in Poland, survived the concentration camps of the Nazis' Final Solution, and emigrated to the United States.
It leans a little too heavily on the broader history, allowing the personal story to get lost at times, but the big personalities of Felix and Bluma still manage to peek through. The narrative starts to take on Forrest Gump qualities at time as the couple are repeatedly transferred between almost every major camp the Nazis ran, sharing time and space with Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel while meeting Josef Mengele and Dwight Eisenhower.
I wish it weren't quite so stiff, but I still admire the testimony of people who persevered in the face of one of the greatest horrors in human history. ( )
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The story of our parents, Blume and Felix Goldberg, is a difficult one to tell. Our hope is that people, young and old all over the world, will be able to feel a personal connection to our parents by reading their story. - Henry Goldberg, Karl Goldberg, and Ester Goldberg Greenberg
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory.
To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. - Elie Wiesel
I know that they're hearing it every year. But you still have to remind people. - Felix Goldberg
In a way, we fear that maybe that's why we survived -- so we can tell the story. - Bluma Tishgarten Goldberg
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Columbia, South Carolina. This is a Mezuzah. For thousands of years the Mezuzah has adorned the entrance way to Jewish residences with a Hebrew prayer.
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Felix and Bluma Goldberg's story of survival warns us of what happened . . . and reminds us of our duty to never forget the six million who lost their lives and make sure it never happens again.
"During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet they survived. Bluma and Felix's miraculous story of survival, combined with the rise of nationalism and fascism, leading to the extermination of millions of human beings is also a cautionary tale... a dangerous history that, if we do not heed the warning signs, could very well be repeated."--
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It leans a little too heavily on the broader history, allowing the personal story to get lost at times, but the big personalities of Felix and Bluma still manage to peek through. The narrative starts to take on Forrest Gump qualities at time as the couple are repeatedly transferred between almost every major camp the Nazis ran, sharing time and space with Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel while meeting Josef Mengele and Dwight Eisenhower.
I wish it weren't quite so stiff, but I still admire the testimony of people who persevered in the face of one of the greatest horrors in human history. (