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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2016
Copyright © Jonathan Wittenberg, 2016
Cover photograph © Jonathan Wittenberg
Jonathan Wittenberg asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 978-0-00-815803-3
Ebook Edition © May 2016 ISBN: 9780008158057
Version: 2017-05-03
This book is dedicated to my father Adi Wittenberg and to the memory of all the members of his family who perished;
To Daniella Nechama Moffson, daughter of Sheera and Michael, great-great-granddaughter of the quiet heroine of this book;
To my friend David Cesarani without whose encouragement the work would never have been written;
To my wife Nicky and our children Mossy, Libbi and Kadya;
And to the future of all children, especially those who have experienced the fate of the refugee.
Table of Contents
1: The Gravestone and the Trunk
3: The Roots of a Rabbinical Family
4: ‘Discharged from Your Duties’
8: ‘Gone as Usual to the Tailor in Olmütz’
9: A Birthday Party to Remember
10: ‘We Will Not Be Separated’
11: ‘We Can Still Be of Help to Others’
12: ‘Never Hanker after What Is Gone’
13: Making a Home in Ostrów Lubelski
14: Letters Between Jerusalem and New York
16: Eastwards from Theresienstadt
18: Inferring from the Silence