We Sang in Hushed Voices

by Helena Jockel

Overview

When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel thought only about how to save “her” children as she accompanied them all the way to Auschwitz. Her account of living and surviving in the camp is clear-eyed and poignant, sometimes recording the too-brief moments of beauty and kindness that accompany the unremitting cruelty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897470824
Publisher:	Azrieli Foundation
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Series:	The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	94
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Helena Jockel (née Kahan) was born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia, on October 23, 1919. After the war, she returned to Czechoslovakia and in 1948 married her widowed brother-in-law, Emil Jockel. They remained in Czechoslovakia until Helena retired. They then moved to Canada in 1988 to join their daughter, Jana. Helena Jockel lives in Halifax.

Table of Contents

Series Preface ix

About the Glossary xi

Introduction Dorota Glowacka xiii

Map xxvii

Family Tree xxviii-xxix

Author's Preface 3

My Mukacevo 5

From Freedom to Slavery 13

Auschwitz: A Journey to Hell 19

Two Hours 23

Survival 25

The Death March 35

Some Place Called Home 41

Steps Toward a New Life 51

From Communism to Canada 57

Epilogue: Transmitting Lessons 63

Glossary 67

Photographs 79

Index 100