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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Bernard, Tony (Physician)     Subjects     Bernard, Tony (Physician) -- Family.     Bernard, Henry, 1920-2016     Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst -- Collaborationists.     Auschwitz (Concentration camp)     Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Tomaszow -- History -- 20th century.     Holocaust survivors -- Biography     Concentration camp inmates -- Biography.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography.     Children of Holocaust survivors -- Biography.     Fathers and sons -- Biography.     Jewish families -- Psychological aspects -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bernard, Tony (Physician)       by title:      The ghost tattoo : d...       by call number:      940.5318092 B522g     Search the Web     Bernard, Tony (Physician)     Bernard, Tony (Physician) -- Family.     Bernard, Henry, 1920-2016     Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst -- Collaborationists.     Auschwitz (Concentration camp)     Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Tomaszow -- History -- 20th century.     Holocaust survivors -- Biography     Concentration camp inmates -- Biography.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography.     Children of Holocaust survivors -- Biography.     Fathers and sons -- Biography.     Jewish families -- Psychological aspects -- Biography.       MARC Display

The ghost tattoo : discovering the hidden truth of my father's Holocaust / Tony Bernard. by Bernard, Tony (Physician) Citadel Press Books : Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2023. Call #: 940.5318092 B522g Subjects Bernard, Tony (Physician) -- Family.   Bernard, Henry, 1920-2016   Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst -- Collaborationists.   Auschwitz (Concentration camp)   Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Tomaszow -- History -- 20th century.   Holocaust survivors -- Biography   Concentration camp inmates -- Biography.   Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography.   Children of Holocaust survivors -- Biography.   Fathers and sons -- Biography.   Jewish families -- Psychological aspects -- Biography. ISBN:  9780806542584 (hc.) Description:  xvi, 320 p. : ill. , genealogical table ; 24 cm. Notes:  Originally published by Allen and Unwin, Australia. Includes index. Tony Bernard is an emergency doctor at Northern Beaches Hospital and Mona Vale Hospital in Sydney, Australia. His father, Henry, was his hero, and it was natural that he followed him into the medical profession. Yet it was one thing to idolize Henry, and another to understand who he was and what he had gone through. Over decades and during multiple trips to Europe, Tony found himself on a path of discovery, eventually writing his father's memoirs shortly before his death in 2016. What began as a journey to understand his father became the uncovering of an extraordinary Holocaust survival story. Summary:  "A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective -- this is the story of a son's 40-year quest to understand his father, a complicated Jewish survivor, and to uncover the hidden past and desperate choices his father made when the Nazis recruited him to police his own people in the Jewish ghetto. Growing up, Tony Bernard knew that his father, Henry, had been in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He was familiar with the tattoo bearing his Auschwitz number -- B1224 -- and the faint scar resulting from a suicide attempt while in a camp in Blizyn. As an Australian boy growing up on Sydney’s sunny Northern Beaches where Henry was a well-respected doctor, Tony simply accepted these facts. Only as a young man, on a trip to Poland with his father, did he begin to uncover the secrets that filled Henry with regret, anguish, and guilt. Henry’s experiences in the concentration camps were harrowing, and he survived through ingenuity, grit, and countless miracles of chance. Yet there was another, deeper story -- of what happened before his deportation to the camps. In 1940, Henry was recruited into the Jewish Order Service [Jewish Ghetto Police] in his Polish hometown -- an organization set up by the Nazis to help maintain order among Jews. Like many other young recruits, Henry believed he would help protect his community. Instead, the ghetto police, as they became known, were forced to assist the Nazis in the subjugation and mistreatment of their own people. Faced daily with impossible choices, desperate to keep his loved ones alive, Henry was both victim and unwilling participant. 'The Ghost Tattoo' is a haunting, emotionally resonant memoir of war and its aftermath. It is also a singular account of resistance, resilience, and hope. Henry was eventually called to Germany to testify in a trial against Nazi murderers, where his evidence proved pivotal. After decades of silence, he seized the chance to bear witness -- for history, for his family, and for all those who did not survive."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.5318092 B522g Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 940.5318092 B522g Adult books Checked out Aug 30, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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