The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival
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- Synopsis
- ... During the Holocaust, total darkness reigned in the world. The Jew reached his point of utter degradation: an insect to be stomped out. Rochman's story has a different twist from most other Holocaust literature, however. ... Though it stays scrupulously close to the facts, complete with accurate names and dates, "The Pit & the Trap" is a book of hope. Not of facile hope or of saccharine optimism but of a tempered faith in humankind. LEYB ROCHMAN (1918-1978) was born in Minsk-Mazowiecki, some twenty-five miles from Warsaw. As a young man, he was close to Porisover Hasidim and studied in the Amudei Torah yeshiva in Warsaw. Prior to the war he was a journalist for the Warsaw Yiddish press. The Germans occupied Minsk-Mazowiecki on 13 September 1939 and established a ghetto there in October 1940. Rochman was married in the ghetto, shortly before escaping its final liquidation. While still in hiding, he began to keep a record of his experiences which he completed in Switzerland soon after the war. It was published in Paris under the title And in Your Blood Shall You Live and won the Hoffer-Leyb Prize awarded by the World Congress for Jewish Culture in 1949. Everything contained in this harrowing chronicle actually happened. Except for Froiman, who now lives in the USA, all those who hid together with the author settled in Israel after the War. Itche-Konyak, the sixteen-year-old boy from Kaluszyn, was killed fighting in the War of Independence. Rochman's daughter, Rivka Miriam, is a noted artist and Hebrew poet; his son Yehoshua, is a concert violinist.
- Copyright:
- 1983
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 271 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780896040472
- Publisher:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Date of Addition:
- 11/01/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Esther Rochman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Franson
- Proofread By:
- Doug Maples
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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