Abraham Landau's Holocaust memoir, "Branded on My
Arm and in My Soul," was chosen by the Holocaust Awareness Museum and
Education Center in Philadelphia as December Book of the Month
(http://www.holocaustawarenessmuseum.org/content/Book-of-the-Month).
"We
are honored to have 'Branded on My Arm and in My Soul' as part of our
library collection and to be featuring it as Book of the Month," said
Phil Holtje, the center's program director. "Many people visit the
Holocaust Awareness Museum website every day so this will be great
exposure for the book."
According to Spinner Publisher Joseph Thomas,
the memoir "reminds and teaches us about the consequences of
systematized hate, racism, and tyranny, and the deprivation of civil
liberties and basic democratic principles." Learn more about "Branded on
My Arm and in My Soul" by visiting http://spinnerpub.com/Branded_Home.html.
Landau's
journey is a bittersweet story of survival, a study of the strength of
the human spirit and a graphic portrayal of man's inhumanity to man.
Born in April 1922 in Wilczyn, Poland, Landau would endure the
dehumanizing conditions of 13 labor and concentration camps instituted
by Hitler as his "Final Solution" to the Jewish race. Landau's nightmare
begins in 1939 with the Nazi occupation of Poland, the pogroms, and
Kristallnacht.
In March of 1940, the Landau
family were ordered to evacuate their home and were sent to the infamous
Zagorow ghetto. From a Jewish population of approximately 18,000, only
six people were known to have survived Zagorow by the end of the war.
Being one of the survivors, Landau's testimony of this place alone takes
on a special historical significance. Like many survivors, his story of
near-annihilation evolves into one of successful rebuilding and
adaptation.
Spinner Publications is a
non-profit, independent publishing house located in New Bedford which
publishes books about the history and culture of people and places in
Southeastern New England. "Branded on My Arm and in My Soul" is another
volume in Spinner's ongoing study of important events of the 20th
century.
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