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Sto caricando le informazioni... From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generationdi Steve Ross
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This was a heartbreaking but so important story to read. I read it in one sitting and cried several times while reading. Szmulek Rozenthal (Steve Ross) was 8 years old when his mother left him on a farm with a family, hoping to give him a chance at survival. His story only starts there. The book flips between his time in ten different concentration camps to his time post-war in Boston. Despite the way his life started and all he saw, Steve vowed to be a bright light to those he encountered post-war. After immigrating to Boston post-war, he received his degree in psychology and became a social worker. Truly an amazing book to read and one that I won’t move on from for a long time. Highly recommend this book! ( ) Just when I was thinking I needed to reduce the number of Holocaust books I read for my own sanity, I saw [From Broken Glass] at my local library. And passed it by. A few days later I saw it again and took it home. Glad I did. One of the most compelling Holocaust books I've read. It is written and paced well. Also one of the most horrific books I've read because its about a child suffering unfathomable abuse in ten different concentration camps for much too long! What justifies not one but many adults beating and torturing children? I found I could not read this book quickly. And why I appreciate that each chapter detailing Steve's abuse is followed by a chapter on his remarkable, life-changing work as an adult. It is incredibly moving and uplifting to know that someone who went through hell as a child could remain motivated to live and care about people at all. Let alone demonstrate how love, concern, fierce determination and education are the only answers to hate. Steve felt that if he survived, helping children is what he wanted to do. He succeeds and makes many friends who are drawn to support him in establishing the Holocaust memorial he believes will continue to galvanize people to respond decisively to hate-filled actions against anyone. If we don't react decisively we allowing hate to snowball into an unmanageable assault against many. Excellent must read! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers. Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed. Ross learned in his darkest experiencesâ??by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisonersâ??the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year. Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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