The Yellow Star

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NO DUST JACKET>>>Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer was the son of a well-known rabbi in Bratislava, the mother community for theJewish 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 wasdeported to the infamous camps ofAuschwitz where the Unsdorfers wereseparated and the parents killed.Their nineteen-year-old son SimchaWas transferred from Auschwitz towork in an airplane factory in the Bu-chenwald camp. Throughout his longand terrible ordeal, he and his fellowprisoners were mercilessly molested bythe S.S. men, but they held on to lifetenaciously, their faith in G-d and HisTorah never wavering. When the warfinally ended, workers and prisonerswere freed and permitted to go home.Home! Home! cried the Czechs,dancing and kissing in mad jubilation.We, the Jews, sank down on the flooragain. . 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 restof our days over the greatest tragedythat had ever befallen our people in ourlong and trying history.Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer has writ-ten a deeply moving account of hisexperiences as a devout Jew in the con-centration camps and factories of the Nazi Reich. The Yellow Star is a painfulstory, but a heroic one, a book whichcogently describes the Divine strengthinherent 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. NOTE: No Dust Jacket.

Author:S. B. Unsdorfer, Feldheim, 1983
Type:Hardcover

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