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We Got the Water|Jill Gabrielle Klein
We Got the Water : Tracing My Family's Path Through Auschwitz
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We Got the Water is the story of the Klein family: Herman and Bertha, and their three children, Lilly, Oli and sixteen-year-old Gabi. In the spring and summer of 1944, along with more than 400,000 other Hungarian Jews, they were forced from their homes, rounded up, and sent to Auschwitz. The Kleins were aboard one of the very first trains of this mass deportation. Author Jill Gabrielle Klein follows her father, his sisters and their mother through Auschwitz and into slave labor camps in Poland and Germany, providing a narrative-both harrowing and inspirational-of resilience in the face of terror. As it charts the author's personal quest to reconstruct the past, the book also documents the inexorable disappearance of living Holocaust survivors, whose first-person accounts illuminate this dark period and inscribe it in our collective memory.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780615806969
  • ISBN-10: 0615806961
  • Publisher: Jill Gabrielle Klein
  • Publish Date: April 2013
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.59 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
  • Page Count: 282

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