The Yellow Star

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Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer was the son of a well-known rabbi in Bratislava, the mother community for the Jewish population of Czechoslovakia.IF Because of the importance of his fathers position, the family was permitted to remain in the city after theGerman occupation during World WarII. Eventually, however, the family was deported to the infamous camps of Auschwitz where the Unsdorfers were separated and the parents killed.Their nineteen-year-old son Simcha was transferred from Auschwitz to work in an airplane factory in the Bu-chenwald camp. Throughout his longand terrible ordeal, he and his fellow prisoners were mercilessly molested by the S.S. men, but they held on to life tenaciously, their faith in G-d and His Torah never wavering. When the war finally ended, workers and prisoners were freed and permitted to go home.Home! Home! cried the Czechs,dancing and kissing in mad jubilation.We, the Jews, sank down on the floor again. . Home Home What a travesty. Home a place that no longer was,and never would be again.Free What were we freed for?Only to mourn and lament for the rest of our days over the greatest tragedy that had ever befallen our people in our long and trying history.Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer has writ-ten a deeply moving account of his experiences as a devout Jew in the con-centration camps and factories of the Nazi Reich. The Yellow Star is a painful story, but a heroic one, a book which cogently describes the Divine strength inherent in the Jewish soul.

Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer wasthe son of a well-known rabbi in Bratislava, the mother community for the Jewish population of Czechoslovakia.

Author:S. B. Unsdorfer
Publication Status:Hard to find!
Type:Softcover
Condition Rating:2

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