The End of Days: A Memoir of the Holocaust / Edition 1

by Helen Sendyk

Overview

Sendyk is the last member of a Jewish family of 12 from Chrzanow, Poland, only three of whom survived the Holocaust. This is her moving story of how each of the others died and of what happened to her and her one sister who survived a German labour camp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815606161
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
Edition description:	1ST SYRACU
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Helen Sendyk lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is active in community affairs and is a member of The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and The Jewish Heritage Writing Project.

Editorial Reviews

Sendyk writes like a seasoned novelist: characters are firmly drawn, events trenchantly described, drama and tension accented. . . . The author shows how important are friendship and humanity, especially in abnormal conditions. Humanity becomes a bulwark against German brutality. . . . Read The End of Days and see how endemic, irrational hatred and a nihilistic system uprooted and destroyed innocent lives, and how decency was able to transcend evil.

USA Today

A poignant memoir of a courageous individual.

Booklist

A poignant memoir of a courageous individual.

Booklist

Less a chronicle of the author's experiences during the Holocaust than a remembrance of the struggle by her parents and seven older siblings to escape the Nazi terror, this often affecting memoir re-creates life in the ghetto of Chrzanow, Poland. Rather than detailing the death camps, Sendyk relates her brothers' attempts to join the Polish army or flee to Russia or Palestine and her sister's efforts to provide for and protect the remaining members of the family. Although the book is involving and frequently eloquent, it has flaws. Extensive dialog, plus descriptions of places and events the author did not directly witness, seem like unnecessary embellishments to her personal story. An understandable yet disconcerting bias depicts all Jews as noble, gentiles as universally corrupt. Not a necessary purchase, but worth consideration for large Judaica collections.-- Rose Cichy, Osterhout Lib., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

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