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A jump for life : a survivor's journal from Nazi-occupied Poland / Ruth Altbeker Cyprys ; edited by Elaine Potter ; with a foreword by Martin Gilbert.

By: Cyprys, Ruth Altbeker
Contributor(s): Potter, Elaine | Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Continuum, 1997Description: vi, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0826410367Subject(s): Cyprys, Ruth Altbeker | Jews -- Poland -- Biography | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives | Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Biography | Poland -- Ethnic relationsDDC classification: 940.53/18/092 | B LOC classification: DS135.P63 | C933 1997
Contents:
The invasion -- The German grip tightens -- Closing the ghetto -- Spring 1941 -- Joining the workforce: the expulsions begin -- My first round-up -- Prepared for the worst: boots and a hacksaw blade -- A spate of peaceful existence -- 1942 draws to a close -- Into the cattle truck -- Out of the train -- A new identity -- The new life -- Uprising in the ghetto -- My life in limbo -- Back in Warsaw -- 1944: a new year -- Retributions...sentences -- Nearing the end -- Warsaw uprising -- Our building falls -- To Zakopane and Eva -- The last round-up.

The invasion -- The German grip tightens -- Closing the ghetto -- Spring 1941 -- Joining the workforce: the expulsions begin -- My first round-up -- Prepared for the worst: boots and a hacksaw blade -- A spate of peaceful existence -- 1942 draws to a close -- Into the cattle truck -- Out of the train -- A new identity -- The new life -- Uprising in the ghetto -- My life in limbo -- Back in Warsaw -- 1944: a new year -- Retributions...sentences -- Nearing the end -- Warsaw uprising -- Our building falls -- To Zakopane and Eva -- The last round-up.

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