Alpern, Joil - No One Awaiting Me: Two Brothers Defy Death During the Holocaust in Romania

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, University Of Calgary Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 246. 8vo. Publisher's black boards, silver lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+ and housed in very good+ dustjacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Harold Buchwald, prominent Jewish-Canadian attorney, and member of the Order of Canada. This is a riveting account of two orphaned brothers whose courage enabled them to survive the rarely told horrors of the Holocaust in Romania. As Jews expelled from Bukovina & Bessarabia to Transnistria, young Joil & his brother Avrum witnessed the cruel deaths of their parents & many others. This is a deeply personal account told through the memories of a child. Readers will never forget the powerful & loving bond between these two brothers. This memoir becomes an inspiring & thoughtful experience for any reader willing to consider both the constructive & the destructive capacities of humankind. This is a story both poignant & triumphant as Joil recounts how he survived the Holocaust with an unmistakable optimism that ultimately brought him to the prairies of Canada.

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