Child of the Holocaust book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Beautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an exa. Child of the Holocaust: a Jewish child in Christian disguise. Kuper, Jack, author. Jack Kuper was only nine years old when he came home to find everyone in his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his village in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language and. CHILD OF THE HOLOCAUST. Memoir by Jack Kuper, Jack Kuper's Child of the Holocaust relates the story of Jankele Kuperblum, a young Jewish boy whose impoverished family arranges for him to be taken on as a farmhand by a local Polish woman in the summer of While suffering the fear and pain of being separated from his family and being thrust into an alien and menacing reality, this .
Jankele Kuperblum at eight had already left home to work, returned to his native village to find his family deported as Jews. The Ukrainian Mrs. Paizak took him in for a time, until the danger of reprisal became too great and he was forced to wander from farm to farm seeking food and shelter, hiding his identity (and his private parts) as a Jew. But ""something within me urged me not to forget. Discover Child of the Holocaust as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Jack Kuper, Alex Poch-Goldin. Free trial available! When Jack Kuper's autobiographical work, Child of the Holocaust, was published in , it was the first Holocaust-related memoir to be published en masse in North America. In a conversation with the author, Kuper recalled the difficulty he experienced in finding a publishing house for the book.
JACK KUPER, born Jankele Kuperblum in , spent his childhood on the run through the treacherous countryside of war-torn Poland. In he landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as one of the thousand war orphans to be brought to Canada by the Jewish Community. CHILD OF THE HOLOCAUST. Memoir by Jack Kuper, Jack Kuper's Child of the Holocaust relates the story of Jankele Kuperblum, a young Jewish boy whose impoverished family arranges for him to be taken on as a farmhand by a local Polish woman in the summer of While suffering the fear and pain of being separated from his family and being thrust into an alien and menacing reality, this food and shelter for work arrangement saves Jankele's life. The Child of the Holocaust, by Jack Kuper (Jacob Kuperblum) is Kuper’s own childhood memoir, of survival in the most extreme circumstances; and for those of you following my reviews, expect to find many books in this genre, as it is something of a fascination for me.
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