{"product_id":"carved-in-stone-holocaust-years-a-boys-tale-paperback-softback-9781487522841","title":"Carved in Stone; Holocaust Years - a Boy's Tale (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487522841","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCarved in Stone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHolocaust Years - a Boy's Tale\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eManny Drukier (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487522841\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 August 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Drukier never presents himself as a hero. He has no time for introspection during the war; the daily search for food is what occupies his thoughts, and the ingenuity he displays in getting an extra portion … is what carries much of the narrative forward. His final moments with his mother and sister, and his father (with whom he was in touch until the elder Drukier\u0026amp;#x2019;s death from starvation) are numbingly, achingly beautiful. Drukier does not write sentimentally about these things – he simply recounts them, and the effect is almost unbearable.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Jason Sherman (Quill and Quire) \u003cp\u003e\"Seldom have I read a manuscript that has moved me like Manny Drukier\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eCarved in Stone: Holocaust Years - A Boy\u0026amp;#x2019;s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - John Copley (Edmonton Jewish News) \u003cp\u003e\"This account by a successful publisher and businessman should be widely read. It is by a survivor of rare sensitivity who assures us as did Walt Whitman in a different context, \"I know, I suffered, I was there.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Bernard Baskin (Canadian Jewish News) \u003cp\u003e\"He has two stories to tell and does so remarkably well in this book of memoirs. Masterfully, he moves the narrative from the past to the present and back again, incorporating the sad and horrific recollections of the war years with those of his (and his wife Freda\u0026amp;#x2019;s) travels through Poland in the fall of 1991.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Allan Levine (Winnipeg Free Press) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Drukier is sustained by the memory of sustenance, and his ability to feel it so intensely is charming. In fact, the intelligent and restrained way in which he shares his tale gives us a portrait of the survivor as a truly admirable person. He is frank about his suffering without being maudlin, intelligent in his analysis of the social forces at play in Europe, generous with the details that brings his world to life. The superior abilities that enabled him to survive are now put to the task of testimony, and serve him and the reader well.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Robin Roger (Books in Canada)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of this book is taken from Primo Levi's words about survivors of the Holocaust: `The survivors are divided into two well-defined groups: those who repress their past en bloc, and those whose memory of the offence persists, as though carved in stone.' The memories of Manny Drukier are indelibly inscribed on his mind, and in \u003cem\u003eCarved in Stone\u003c\/em\u003e he recounts them with honesty and precision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1939, at the age of eleven, Drukier was forced by the Nazis to leave his native city of Lódz, in Poland. His narrative, prompted by his first visit back to Poland after fifty years, begins with his childhood, follows him in and out of various hiding places and to the labour camps, and describes his day of liberation and his later emigration to North America. But this is also the story of the day-to-day life of Jews both before and during the war, providing a detailed account of Drukier's friends and family, and their love, wit, and will to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFOREWORD by Henry Schogt\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Second Coming of the Jews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Rehabilitation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Warsaw\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Grandparents \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 New Year 5752\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 An Apartment in Lodi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Yorn Kippur in Lodi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Last Hours of Childhood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Kieke\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Majdanek\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Staszow Then and Now\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Szifra\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Our Time Has Come\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 We Work \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Other Way\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The End of the Line\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Auschwitz, 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Kindness of Strangers 187 18 In the Orphanage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 That Side Jordan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Greetings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595499499800,"sku":"9781487522841","price":20.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/carved-in-stone-holocaust-years-a-boys-tale-paperback-softback-9781487522841","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}