The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger: Revised Edition

ISBN-13: 9781771120111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str.

Carolyn Gammon

Opis

At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults were able to forage outside at night. Against all odds, they emerged alive. Now, decades later, here is Unger's "unwritten diary." At the end of the war, following a time as people sans pays, the Unger family immigrated to Canada. After discovering a love of chemistry, Israel Unger had a stellar academic career, married, and raised a family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to offer. This revised edition includes a reproduction of Dagnan's List, a list of Jewish slave labourer similar Schindler's List, made famous in the Steven Spielberg movie. The name of Israel Unger's father appears on the list, in which Dagnan declares that Unger is an "essential worker"--a ruse that may have saved the father's life. This recently discovered document proves that Israel Unger's memory of this key part of the story was accurate. A new postscript details the importance of this startling document.

Spis treści

• The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger by Carolyn Gammon and Israel Unger
• Dedications
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Israel Unger
• Part I: The Only Jews in Poland
• Srulik is born in Tarnow
• Wysiedlenia
• My Father's Courage
• Dagnam's Flour Mill
• The Hideout
• The Only Jews in Poland
• Kissing a Soviet Soldier's Boot
• Matzos from America
• Part II: Sans Pays
• The Kielce Pogrom and a Gash on the Head
• Becoming ""Orphans""
• Aix-les-Bains
• Sans Pays in Paris
• Charlie and Sydney in London
• Back to Paris, Quartier Pére Lachaise
• Visions of Canada: Mounties, Snow, and Sheepskin
• Part III: Canadian Through and Through
• An Airplane, a Stevedore, and His Plymouth: Arriving at Pier 21
• Home à la Mordecai Richler
• Ich hab dir gegebn lebn zwei mol—""I gave you life twice""
• The Yeshiva and Bnei Akiva
• Canada Through and Through
• The Octet Rule
• Collecting Butcher Bills
• Kafkaesque Encounters
• My Brother Charlie
• Part IV: The Bubble Counter
• Leaving Home: Montreal to Fredericton
• The Bubble Counter
• Photochemistry in Texas
• Under the Chuppah in Minto, New Brunswick
• The Young Professor—From Texas to Saint John
• ALS—My Father's Death
• Charlie's Troubles
• A Mark for Canada
• Sharon and Sheila
• The Best Granny
• Part V: Dean Unger
• Dean Unger
• Struggles with Charlie
• My Mother and Her Backbone of Steel
• Marlene
• Making Up for Lost Time
• Airplane Accident
• Telling My Story
• Part VI: ""They Know My Name is Srulik!""
• Return to Tarnow
• A Modern Righteous Gentile: Meeting Adam Bartosz
• Meeting Mr. Dagnan
• Skorupa
• Kalman Goldberg—Outside the Hideout
• Rescue Children, Inc.
• Ryglice and Dabrowa
• State Archives and Registry Office
• My Birth House
• Matzevahs for my Family
• ""They know my name is Srulik!""
• ""How did the Holocaust affect you?""
• Afterword: Writing The Unwritten Diary by Carolyn Gammon
• Postscript
• Dagnan's List
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography