FROM ASHES TO LIFE
Jewish Studies/Memoirs
5½ x 8½, 232 pp with
8 pp b&w photographs
Paper, $17.95
1-56279-052-8
US & Canada

A 1994 SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Best Adult Book for Young Adults”

In this disturbing but inspirational account, Lucille Eichengreen relates her personal journey through Nazi Germany as a young Jewish girl.

Sustained by great courage and resourcefulness, Lucille Eichengreen emerged from her nightmare with the inner strength to build a new life for herself in the United States. Only in 1991 did she return to Germany and Poland to assess the Jewish situation there. Her story is a testament to the very thing the Holocaust sought to destroy: the regeneration of Jewish life.

Blessed with a remarkable memory that made her one of the most effective witnesses in the postwar trial of her persecutors, Eichengreen has composed a memoir of exceptional accuracy. As important as its factual accuracy is its emotional clarity and truth. Simple and direct, Eichengreen's words compel with moral authority.

“Formidable in its authority: one knows instantly that nothing here is 'made up,' everything has been seen, smelled, endured, suffered ... I am harrowed by it ... the truth-telling, the economy, the spare moral cry of it.”
— Cynthia Ozick

“In spare, lucid language, Eichengreen relates her harrowing forced journey ... through the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen. Important, compelling testimony.”
— Ms.

“A most eloquent Holocaust memoir, distinguished by symmetry of storyline and theme.”
— Kirkus Reviews

RUMKOWSKI AND THE ORPHANS OF LODZ
Jewish Studies / Memoir
144 pages, 20 b&w photos
5½ x 8½, Paper, $16.95
1-56279-115-X
World

Rumkowski and the Orphans of Lodz is a chilling account of a young woman’s experiences in the notorious Lodz Ghetto. The ghetto was lorded over by Chaim Rumkowski, Nazi-appointed Jewish Elder of Lodz and former head of the orphanage. Many have long hailed Rumkowski as a hero who did the best he could leading his community through the worst of circumstances. Now Lucille Eichengreen shares, with firsthand evidence, how Chaim Rumkowski flouted his authority through collaboration, corruption, and the abuse of its children.

“Lucille Eichengreen tells the true story of Chaim Rumkowski, the principal person in charge of the Lodz Ghetto, where the author was sent with her mother and sister. Her mother died in the ghetto, and her sister was sent to a concentration camp. She thus remained alone, orphaned, under the command of Rumkowski, who, taking advantage of his power, abused the orphans of Lodz, including Lucille. A beautiful testimony, simply written.”
—Bulletin Trimestriel da la Fondation Auschwitz

THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
Biography/Jewish Studies
5½ x 8½, 176 pp
24 b&w photos
Paper
1-56279-105-2
Out of Print

In the years before the Second World War the city of Salonika in Greece was a center of Sephardic life and culture. But during the war, when Greece was occupied first by Italy and then by Germany, its Jewish population was systematically exterminated. So complete was the genocide that few Jewish voices remained to speak of the terrible loss. Now Rebecca Fromer tells the story of one who did survive: Elia Aelion, whose experience represents the larger story of the tragedy of the Greek Holocaust.

“This poignant recollection reflects ... the anguish and the agony that Jews, singled out by the enemy for their Jewishness, had to endure during the Holocaust.”
— Elie Wiesel

“Too little is known in the English speaking world regarding the tragedy of Greek Jews during the Holocaust and the destruction of the much vaunted Jewish community of Salonika. Therefore, [The House by the Sea] … is all the more welcome. The words are few, the passion deep, the history intense, and the experience of anguish and survival captured with skill and charm.“
— Michael Berenbaum, President, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

This publication was made possible thanks to a generous grant by the Maurice Amado Foundation.