Little House on Mount Carmel FROM THE PUBLISHER
A Little House on Carmel Mount is a memoir written from the perspective of a Jewish boy between the ages of seven and seventeen. Alex was born in 1930 into a family of prosperous secular Jews, and raised with stern love by his nanny, a German Lutheran. In 1939 Poland was partitioned and Grodno became part of the Soviet Union. Soviet rule was quickly succeeded by German invasion and the brutal repression of the Jewish population. Although Alex was wounded during the invasion, his father, Dr. Chaim Blumstein, refused to believe that organised genocide by one of Europe's most cultured nations was possible. However, after his arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo, Dr. Blumstein was forced to concede the impossible, and arranged for his family to escape from the ghetto to the house of a country doctor, who - although a fervent Catholic - agreed to help the Blumsteins.
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During the period described in this memoir (1939-1947), Blumstein's home city of Grodno was annexed to the Soviet Union in the partition of Poland, invaded by the Nazi military, and eventually retaken by the Soviet Army. Only nine years old in 1939, Blumstein, along with his parents, was one of the very few Polish Jews to survive the Holocaust. He describes experiences of Polish anti-Semitism, the growing awareness to the threat posed by the Nazis, and the aid the family received from Polish Christians helping them to hide from the Germans. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
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