Sheva's Promise: A Chronicle of Escape from a Nazi Polish Ghetto (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust)

Lederman, Sylvia

ISBN 10: 0815610181 / ISBN 13: 9780815610182

Published by Syracuse University Press, 2013

About this Item

Lederman tells her story of survival during the Holocaust in Poland starting in 1941. She relates life in a Nazi ghetto with her mother and sister as she tries to obtain a false birth certificate to escape with. After finding work in a German hospital under an assumed identity she manages to elude capture with the help of a few brave individuals. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513. . 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sheva's Promise: A Chronicle of Escape from a Nazi Polish Ghetto (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815610181
• ISBN 13: 9780815610182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A remarkable story of a young Jewish girl's survival outside of the Ghetto in Poland and Germany through sheer determination, resourcefulness, luck and the assistance of a few non-Jewish ""helpers"". A story she had promised her mother and sister would never be forgotten.

About the Author

Sylvia Lederman worked in the garment industry and spent the rest of her life in Queens, New York. She was known for being a caring and compassionate person who kept ties to her roots in her native Poland by becoming a member of two expatriate societies, the Rohatyn Society and the Lodzier Society, both fellowships of people from Poland. Her life's work was to publish this memoir so the story told within would never be forgotten.