My Voice: Ike Alterman
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8652-2 (ISBN)
Ike Alterman was born in 1928 in Ozarów in Poland. In telling his story, he recounts his happy Orthodox Jewish upbringing, the tragic loss of his immediate family in Treblinka and Auschwitz, his ordeal through concentration camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, surviving multiple death marches, and his liberation in Theresienstadt in 1945.
Ike is one of ‘The Boys’, brought to Windermere in England, as part of a British governmental scheme granting asylum to Holocaust child survivors. Ike describes his rehabilitation, and new life in Manchester, where he started a family and established a jewellery business. Later in life, Ike pursued closure by revisiting his hometown in Poland and undertaking a difficult trip to Treblinka. He reflects on his life after immeasurable loss, and what it means to endure and bear witness.
Ike’s book is part of the My Voice book collection, a stand-alone project of The Fed, the leading Jewish social care charity in Manchester, dedicated to preserving the life stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. The oral history, which is recorded and transcribed, captures their entire lives from before, during and after the war years. The books are written in the words of the survivor so that future generations can always hear their voice. The My Voice book collection is a valuable resource for Holocaust awareness and education. -- .
The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June of 2021, The Fed were awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for the My Voice Project, the highest possible accolade for a voluntary sector group. -- .
1 – My early memories
2 – My father’s family in Ostrowiec
3 – My father’s business
4 – Family rituals in Ozarów
5 – The taste of those times
6 – My early education and antisemitism
7 – Occupation and the ghetto
8 – So much fear, so much pressure
9 – The selection
10 – I was alone
11 – Blyzin concentration camp
12 – Auschwitz-Birkenau
13 – It was fear all the time
14 – Oh, the atrocities
15 – Death march and missed liberations
16 – Another missed liberation
17 – We’re free, we’re free!
18 – England bound
19 – Freedom in Windermere
20 – A Manchester group
21 – Getting back to normality
22 – My first job
23 – I’ve got family!
24 – Sawdust to the clowns
25 – Myra, a local girl from Hightown
26 – Marriage
27 – My children, my world
28 – My records and tracing family
29 – ’45 Aid Society
30 – Alterman and Watson Ltd
31 – My word is my bond
32 – Losing Myra
33 – Golf and new beginnings
34 – Triple bypass
35 – Courting Diane and returning to Windermere
36 – I’ll always be there for them
37 – Telling my story to the world
38 – Returning to Prague
39 – You can’t hate a whole country
40 – The world today
41 – Learning to live
42 – Finding closure
Glossary
My Voice volunteers
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors |
| Zusatzinfo | 65 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8652-7 / 1526186527 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8652-2 / 9781526186522 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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