Zol Zayn Shulem I: Family History in the Shadow of the Holocaust - Paperback

by Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski (Author)

Zol Zayn Shulem - May there be Peace - is Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski's attempt to reconstruct and reflect upon the lives of his mother's and his father's families before and during the Holocaust, in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. While the Munich-based side of his family survive the Third Reich by virtue of an earlier mixed marriage, the Jewish Berlin side and the Jewish branch in Poland are nearly all murdered, though some miraculously escape death. Zores (trouble), the first book of the series, documents in detail their individual lives and tragedies. Unlike many such histories which end at liberation in 1945, this book also examines the survivors' lives in Poland and Germany in the period immediately after the Holocaust. In the second book, Faroys (forward), the author looks back on his own life, lived in the constant shadow of the past as he grew up among Jewish survivors, mainly in post-war Germany but also in the Netherlands and Israel, and settled in Britain as an adult.