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Meisels, Leslie, 1927-
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Meisels, Leslie, 1927-
Meisels, Leslie, 1927- -- Family.
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Personal narratives
Jewish ghettos -- Hungary -- Nadudvar -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Austria.
Holocaust survivors -- Canada -- Biography.
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Meisels, Leslie, 1927-
Meisels, Leslie, 1927-
Meisels, Leslie, 1927- -- Family.
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Personal narratives
Jewish ghettos -- Hungary -- Nadudvar -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Austria.
Holocaust survivors -- Canada -- Biography.
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Suddenly the shadow fell / Leslie Meisels ; with a short memoir by his wife, Eva Meisels ; and an introduction by Anna Porter.
by
Meisels, Leslie, 1927-
The Azrieli Foundation, c2014.
Call #:
940.5318 M515s
Subjects
Meisels, Leslie, 1927-
Meisels, Leslie, 1927-
--
Family.
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Holocaust,
Jewish
(1939-1945)
--
Hungary
--
Personal narratives
Jewish
ghettos
--
Hungary
--
Nadudvar
--
History
--
20th
century
.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Conscript labor
--
Austria.
Holocaust survivors
--
Canada
--
Biography.
Series
Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memoirs ; Series 6.
ISBN:
9781897470428 (pbk.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xxv, 132 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Map on page [xxvii] by François Blanc.
Maps on endpapers. Maps by Martin Gilbert.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
When Leslie Meisels insisted that his mother and two brothers join a transport going who knows where, all he knew was that they had to get out of the terrible holding facility in Debrecen,
Hungary
. The guards had called for families with four children; they were only three. That decision took them not to a death camp but to forced labour in the Austrian countryside, included in the roughly 20,000 "exchange Jews" whose lives had been bartered for gold, diamonds, and cash in a secret deal between Rudolf Kastner and Adolf Eichmann. As Kastner Jews they were then sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they were kept "on ice"
--
allowed to stay together and treated somewhat better than the other prisioners. The transport to Switzerland never materialized; the SS abanded their train to Theresienstadt in April 1945 and they were liberated by the US army. Added to his memoir is a short account by his wife, Eva, who survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest as a five-year-old with the assistance of Raoul Wallenberg.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Other authors:
Meisels, Eva.
Porter, Anna.
Azrieli Foundation.
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