The Linden Still Bloom: A Survivor's Story - Dror Kahn

Descriere The Linden Still Bloom: A Survivor's Story - Dror Kahn

The Linden Still Bloom is an exciting holocaust memoir of a Jewish teenager's resilience, audacity and determination to live.An enthusiastic, humorous and keen-eyed story teller, Shoshana has an incredibly exciting story to tell of how with luck, courage, wits and the help of strangers she survived the Nazi's and World War 2. \nWithout judgement, she shares how the best and worse of human nature is revealed when people go through the most drastic circumstances. \n \nHer message is also a warning. It was all done by people. These situations can repeat and in some places already do. Which side will you be on and how you will act is to be determined. \n \nHer memoir is of her charmed childhood in Liepaja, Latvia, a seaside resort, and how it became a murderous hell when the Nazis conquered the country with the goal of exterminating the Jews. Through anecdotes we see her life as a German slave, during the Aktions (as the killing roundups were called), the 'miraculous' escape during the infamous Three Days in December massacre, life in the ghetto, and in Kaiserwald and Shutoff concentration camps. She tells of her gamble to make a getaway during the Death March, hiding with a brave Polish farmer, disguising as Veronica Reimer, a German frauline, and later as Jean Simon, a French POW. She tells of her life in Europe after the war and how she was smuggled into Palestine where her new life on a kibbutz began.\n \nThe Linden Still Bloom defies expectations of holocaust books by not being a grim and dark tale, though there is that too. \nIt is a testament to beauty and life.\n A video of Shoshana Kahn telling her story was recorded for the USC Shoah Foundation. It is on youtube. \nhttps: //youtu.be/jkTJghlZXm4?si=armZStDHkkFK6Atv \nMany viewers wrote comments. Here are a few. \n \n...I'm 25 minutes in and my GOD this woman is out of this world amazing! What a beam of \nlight! \n...She is wonderful. I love that she knew how to handle herself in such hellish situations. \n..Incredible. I am so inspired by who this woman is, and what she did. It makes me thirsty \nfor life. \n...She was a joy to listen to - she had me laughing out loud a few times \n...What an incredible, inspirational, intelligent and beautiful woman! Someone should write a \nbook or make a movie about Shoshana please! \n...She has a tremendous life force. \n...What a fantastic badass!\n

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COUCH POTATO PRESS

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9798987375921

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