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Roman's Journey | 
 enlarge | Author: Roman Halter
Creator: Sir Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 240703
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1846270332
EAN: 9781846270338
ASIN: 1846270332
Publication Date: September 13, 2007
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 Ruth's Review September 4, 2008
R. Moore (Surrey, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book as I had met Roman Halter when I worked in Woking and knew he had survived being in a concentration camp during the Second World War. Having read this book, I realise that I didn't know the half of it - what an incredible story!
I highly recommend this book - it is a real eye-opener as to what life was like for Jewish people in Poland, both before and after the War.
 Surviving against the odds in the hell of the Shoah July 15, 2008
Gary Selikow (Great Kush)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Roman Halter tells his story beginning with his boyhood in the town of Chodecz in Poland, where he attends, under the caring tutelage of his conscientious teacher Mrs Wisniewska, together with Polish and ethnic German Poles (volksdeutsh) children and his family have friends Polish and ethnic German friends. He had a great love for his gentle maid Mrs Lewandowska, who had been his wet nurse.
He remembers his boyhood as a good time.
Before September 1939, Poles, Germans and 800 Jews lived in my town.
But when he was twelve years of age, Roman and his family watched as the ethnic Germans welcomed the invading Nazi troops with kisses and swastika flags. the "clearing-out" - the genocide - of the Jewish people began almost immediately. . Murder began as soon as the SS police took charge of the town, towards the end of September 1939.
Roman's families house is seized, and his family together with the rest of the Jewish community forced into hovels on the outskirts of the town.
He was forced to become a slave under the local SS chief and witnessed his classmates being bayoneted to death by the Nazis.
Roman's grandfather died soon afterwards and his father starved to death.
From there began the nightmarish journey into the Lodz ghetto, the Auschwitz death camp, Stuthof and a firebombed Dresden.
In Spring 1942, Roman's mother, half-sister, her two children and Roman's sister were all selected to be taken to Chelmno to be murdered there. His entire family were destroyed and Roman began the hellish journey from the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz, Stutfhof and a bombed out Dresden.
With clarity and sensitivity Halter outlines his experiences that bring the realities of these events to life.
He talks about his experiences after the war and the brutality of the Soviet occupiers who replaced the Nazis.
As well as the demonic cruelty of the Nazis, he also speaks of those courageous ethnic Germans and Poles who helped him to survive.
At one point in the Lodz ghetto Roman observes that Jews can never continue to survive as a minority in exile dependant on the mercy of those nations where they are scattered, but must have a land of their own.
among those who he is speaking to are the head of the Revisionist Zionists in the area, who later is murdered at the hands of the Nazis.
He describes his return to Chodecz and his reunions with some of those who had helped his family.
Eventually he was brought to Britain with other youths and children who had survived the slaughter.
He later migrated to Israel where he and his children and grandchildren now live.
His postscript tells the fate of some of those whom he knew.
Some of those who helped him were murdered by the Soviets and his uncle, a Jewish communist, was killed by Stalin.
Many Holocaust survivors of hundreds of thousands of the descendants of holocaust survivors today live in Israel.
It is ironic that today they are under attack by those enemies of Israel who would like to see them destroyed.
And there are even those very perverted and evil people who refer to Israelis (including Holocaust survivors and their descendants) as Nazis.
They do this in order to prepare the way for a second Holocaust of Israel's Jews.
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