The 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 Carved in Stone he recounts them with honesty and precision.
In 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.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.53/18/092
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-pl---
- ISBN
- 0802008321 9781442672765
- LCCN
- DS135.P63
- LCCN Item number
- D63 1996eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 255 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600148 (OCoLC)666906125 (CaOOCEL)417730
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- FOREWORD 10
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 14
- Prologue: The Second Coming of the Jews 26
- 1 Rehabilitation 30
- 2 Warsaw 34
- 3 Grandparents 42
- 4 New Year 5752 52
- 5 An Apartment in Łódź 58
- 6 Yom Kippur in Łódź 66
- 7 Last Hours of Childhood 82
- 8 Kielce 98
- 9 Majdanek 104
- 10 Staszów Then and Now 118
- 11 Szifra 132
- 12 Our Time Has Come 140
- 13 We Work 148
- 14 The Other Way 166
- 15 The End of the Line 170
- 16 Auschwitz, 1991 196
- 17 The Kindness of Strangers 210
- 18 In the Orphanage 234
- 19 That Side Jordan 252
- 20 Greetings 270
