The Neppi Modona Diaries: Reading Jewish Survival Through My Italian Family
Hanover, NH: Univ. Press of New England, c1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 274, illus., references, glossary, slight sticker residue to DJ. More
Hanover, NH: Univ. Press of New England, c1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 274, illus., references, glossary, slight sticker residue to DJ. More
London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 275, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendix A: The History of the Exodus. Appendix B: The History of the Ordzhonikidze Detachment, Kirov Brigade. Index. Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert. Sticker residue on DJ flap. Two cousins relate their experiences with Bielski s partisan brigade in war-torn Russia during the Second World War. Natives of Novogrodek, part of present-day Belarus, they describe Jewish life before the Holocaust and furnish a most moving account of how a thriving and prosperous Jewish center was decimated by the Nazis and local collaborators. Initial joy when their hometown was taken over by the Soviet Union disappeared when the Germans ran the Russians out of town and started implementing policies to eradicate all Jews and anything Jewish. Dov (Berl), the elder of the cousins, whose account comprises the first section of the book, lost his immediate family in the early days of German occupation and escaped from ghetto life in November 1942. More