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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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