163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death time and again, committing daring acts of bravery to do what he thought was righthelping other prisoners escape and actively participating in the underground resistance.
A man who refused to surrender his spirit despite the loss of his wife and his entire family to the Nazis, Englishman kept a promise he had made to a friend, and sought his friend’s children after the war. With the children’s mother, he made a new life in Canada, where he continued his resistance, tracking neo-Nazi cells and infiltrating their headquarters to destroy their files.
Until his death in August 2007, Englishman remained active, speaking out against racism and hatred in seminars for young people. His gripping story should be widely read and will be of interest to scholars of auto/biography, World War II history, and the Holocaust.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.53/18092
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-ne---
- ISBN
- 9781554580095 9781554580873
- LCCN
- DS135.N6
- LCCN Item number
- E5634 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 108 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00213876 (OCoLC)696032609 (CaOOCEL)411206
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- One six three two five six
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 12
- 1 Growing Up Jewish in Amsterdam 18
- 2 Deportation 31
- 3 From the Burght to Vught—and Auschwitz 43
- 4 The Coal Mines of Janina and the Buna Works 48
- 5 The Death March to Dora-Nordhausen and Building the "Secret Weapon" 58
- 6 Liberation 67
- 7 Finding the Children 71
- 8 Picking Up the Pieces 80
- 9 Canada, Here We Come! 85
- 10 Déjà Vu 90
- 11 Fighting Back by Telling the Truth 98
- 12 Family Reunion 108
- 13 March of the Living—April 2004 115
- Afterword 122
- Appendices 124
- I: Family Relationships 124
- II: List of Prisons and Concentration Camps 125
