Sky Tinged Red A Chronicle of Two and a Half Years in Auschwitz eBook Isaia Eiger Dora Eiger Zaidenweber
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''Yes, even in the concentration camps one could distinguish between beasts and human beings, who, although they were physically abused and rundown, remained spiritually dignified.''
Auschwitz-Birkenau was a planet unto itself, with its own brutal hierarchy of enslavement. For prisoners there, days were marked by hunger, hard labor, beatings and fear. Yet even in the extermination hub of Europe's Jews, seeds of dignity and humanity took root. Sons ''organized'' food to sustain their ill fathers. Friends found each other work. Some plotted escape and others armed resistance.
Sky Tinged Red is Isaia Eiger's chronicle of two and a half years as a prisoner in Birkenau. As a schreiber--intake scribe--and member of the resistance movement Eiger's knowledge of the camp was extensive. His incisive record of those he met documents the extremes of human behavior, highlighting the courage of those who maintained their humanity in a world dominated by brutality. Written shortly after the war, Sky Tinged Red, for both its compassionate narrative and the remarkable story of its publication, is a tribute to the power of survivor testimony and the transmission of memory through successive generations.
Sky Tinged Red A Chronicle of Two and a Half Years in Auschwitz eBook Isaia Eiger Dora Eiger Zaidenweber
I was privileged to hear the author's daughter, Dora Eiger Zaidenweber, to speak in person recently. After hearing her share a portion of her personal experience during the Holocaust and her subsequent efforts to translate her father's chronicled account, I knew I had to read this book!If only the Preface and Forward were written, the reader wouldn't believe the horror Isaia Eiger and his family experienced. As his daughter and grandson recount, the human mind cannot fathom the evil that took place during this time in history.
Ripped from his home, his family and all humanity, Isaia experienced this pain, not once, but twice, to tell his story. Yet, as I read Isaia's account, I was amazed how he not only captured incredible details (e.g., numbers, times, dates, and names) but the emotions and physical depravity of each moment. I can only imagine the mental, emotional and spiritual toll to relive and document his experience.
The chronicle itself flows very well - as a story. It is not overwrought with facts, but provides historical context to help the reader understand the succession of events. The glossary and list of names in the back are also very helpful. The diversity and hierarchy of both victims and the abusers illustrates how widespread and systematic the evil was.
Isaia provides the reader his thoughts and feelings without really making it about him. Instead, he writes as another participant among many - a witness. I would have to constantly remind myself that he lived this; and these details were stained into his memory so that he might tell the world.
I am truly amazed how this story was written, recovered and translated. Mrs. Eiger Zaidenweber is to be commended, not only for her translation work, but her relentless determination and passion to honor both her father and all the victims whose stories cannot be told.
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Sky Tinged Red A Chronicle of Two and a Half Years in Auschwitz eBook Isaia Eiger Dora Eiger Zaidenweber Reviews
Again I have been made aware of how possible the holocaust could happen again. The human element in all the stories I read tells me that it is possible for all this to happened again if we the people walk around with our eyes closed in passive ignorance... Reading the stories told by survivors like this one will humble me and help me to always be on watch for hate crimes that were allowed to developers as was the foundation for the holocaust ..thank you Isaia Eiger for sharing your insightful story. I'm glad you love Veda to tell it.
WOW........ what else can I say. I have read 100's of survivor Holocaust books and this one book has grabbed my soul and I don't think it will EVER let go! The thoughts, feelings and memories this book evoked in my were amazing. The thought that anyone could have bare witness or much less survived is a true miracle. Any one who is interested in the history of the Jews, World War 2, or just an amazing story of human survival by all means read this heroic book!
I have read quite a bit about WW2 and the holocaust but this was the best book I have ever read. The survivor tried to write this book from the notes he made during and right after the camps but could never follow thru with it because of the memories. After I read it , I was going to tell others all about the book and what happened but cant. The brutality and evil inflicted are hard to imagine. You just have to read it is all I can say.
Sky Tinged Red gives us a picture of life in hell Birkenau was about as close as mankind has ever come to creating its actuality here on Earth. Isaia Eiger chronicled his time in the camp - and he survived there far longer than the vast majority of those "lucky" enough not to be gassed immediately upon arrival - soon after the war ended, while his memories were fresh; these memories begin before Birkenau commenced full operation as an extermination camp, and continue to the end of the war.
Eiger wrote his account (in Yiddish) without literary pretentions; he does not, as a rule, wax philosophical, although there are some snatches of poetry and the occasional outcry against the evil he experienced. The resulting book is thus mostly in the "this happened, then this happened" style; Eiger has an accountant's eye for detail, and because of his seniority and work as a schreiber, was in a position to observe more of what was going on in the various sections of Birkenau than most.
Sky Tinged Red is not intended as recreational reading; but the book has been well enough translated that is it does read well. I recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about one of the major chapters of the Holocaust.
I was privileged to hear the author's daughter, Dora Eiger Zaidenweber, to speak in person recently. After hearing her share a portion of her personal experience during the Holocaust and her subsequent efforts to translate her father's chronicled account, I knew I had to read this book!
If only the Preface and Forward were written, the reader wouldn't believe the horror Isaia Eiger and his family experienced. As his daughter and grandson recount, the human mind cannot fathom the evil that took place during this time in history.
Ripped from his home, his family and all humanity, Isaia experienced this pain, not once, but twice, to tell his story. Yet, as I read Isaia's account, I was amazed how he not only captured incredible details (e.g., numbers, times, dates, and names) but the emotions and physical depravity of each moment. I can only imagine the mental, emotional and spiritual toll to relive and document his experience.
The chronicle itself flows very well - as a story. It is not overwrought with facts, but provides historical context to help the reader understand the succession of events. The glossary and list of names in the back are also very helpful. The diversity and hierarchy of both victims and the abusers illustrates how widespread and systematic the evil was.
Isaia provides the reader his thoughts and feelings without really making it about him. Instead, he writes as another participant among many - a witness. I would have to constantly remind myself that he lived this; and these details were stained into his memory so that he might tell the world.
I am truly amazed how this story was written, recovered and translated. Mrs. Eiger Zaidenweber is to be commended, not only for her translation work, but her relentless determination and passion to honor both her father and all the victims whose stories cannot be told.
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