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Indlæser... Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust (2005)af Nancy Wright Beasley
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  LorriMilli | Aug 12, 2010 |   Izzy's Fire recounts his story. Jay Ipson (nee Jacob Ipp) was the gentleman I met at the Richmond Holocaust Museum. The book is told from the point of view of his mother. The author, Nancy Wright Beasley, used family memoirs and other resources to write the first-person account of the family's prosperous start, followed by terrible ordeals first in the Kovno Ghetto and then on the run for many, many months. The book goes on to detail the family's struggles and successes following the conclusion of the war. The book spares no details as to the horrors this family endured during the Holocaust. But the Ipps wouldn't have made it without the help of strangers and friends. With this focus on those who aided them, it's a hopeful tale too. This is not the type of book I normally set out to read because of the awful time that it depicts. Having met one of the main characters of the story though, I simply had to read it and I'm glad I did. I highly recommend this book (and I recommend a visit to the Richmond Holocaust Museum as well). (  )2  missylc | Feb 1, 2010 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
The book depicts how 13 members of five Jewish families survived the Holocaust through their own ingenuity and the generosity of a poor Catholic farm family. All 13 Jews ended up living in a 9?x12?x4? underground hole as World War II raged around them. Some lived underground for about seven months before being liberated by the Russian Army. Dr. Michael Berenbaum, project director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (1988-1993) and author of The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, says, ?Izzy's Fire is filled with the passion of one woman determined to do justice to the story of another woman who lived in hiding throughout the war years. The war has soul. One feels the intensity of the struggle to survive. One senses the decency of those who were ready to rescue and the evil that haunted a mother and father and their young child in the dangerous world they lived...... No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Indlæser...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.531809224793History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; Holocaust Holocaust History, geographic treatment, biography Holocaust victims biographies and autobiographiesLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit: (4.5)
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It is the story of five Lithuanian Jewish families who managed to escape the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. What is most remarkable about Izzy’s Fire, is not the fact that the families escaped the Kovno Ghetto, but the fact that they were hidden by a Catholic family.
Nancy Wright Beasley writes with compassion, yet also with a sharpness, not withholding or color coating the information presented. The ugliness is there for all to read, but so is the inspirational relating of the events. She offers hope when bleakness surrounds the environment. That is the magnificence and beauty of her writing. (