I Am a Star (11 page)
Suggested Further Readings
Altshuler, David A.
Hitler’s War against the Jews.
New York: Behrman House, 1978.
Hitler’s War against the Jews.
New York: Behrman House, 1978.
Baer, Edith.
A Frost in the Night: A Girlhood on the Eve of the Third Reich.
New York: Pantheon, 1980.
A Frost in the Night: A Girlhood on the Eve of the Third Reich.
New York: Pantheon, 1980.
Baldwin, Margaret.
The Boys Who Saved the Children.
New York: Julian Messner, 1981.
The Boys Who Saved the Children.
New York: Julian Messner, 1981.
Bernbaum, Israel.
My Brother’s Keeper
—
The Holocaust through the Eyes of an Artist.
New York: Putnam, 1985.
My Brother’s Keeper
—
The Holocaust through the Eyes of an Artist.
New York: Putnam, 1985.
Frank, Anne.
Diary of a Young Girl.
New York: Pocket Books (reprint), 1971.
Diary of a Young Girl.
New York: Pocket Books (reprint), 1971.
Green, Gerald.
The Artists of Terezin.
New York: Schocken, 1978. Kantor, Alfred.
The Book of Alfred Kantor.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
The Artists of Terezin.
New York: Schocken, 1978. Kantor, Alfred.
The Book of Alfred Kantor.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
Katz, William Loren.
An Album of Nazism.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1979.
An Album of Nazism.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1979.
Meltzer, Milton.
Never to Forget.
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Orgel, Doris.
The Devil in Vienna.
New York: Dial Press, 1978. Reiss, Johanna.
The Upstairs Room.
New York: Crowell, 1972. Richter, Hans Peter.
Friedrich.
New York: Dell, 1973. Rossel, Seymour.
The Holocaust.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1981. Rubin, Arnold P.
The Evil That Men
Do. New York: Julian Messner, 1977.
Never to Forget.
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Orgel, Doris.
The Devil in Vienna.
New York: Dial Press, 1978. Reiss, Johanna.
The Upstairs Room.
New York: Crowell, 1972. Richter, Hans Peter.
Friedrich.
New York: Dell, 1973. Rossel, Seymour.
The Holocaust.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1981. Rubin, Arnold P.
The Evil That Men
Do. New York: Julian Messner, 1977.
Schoenberner, Gerhard
The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe, 1933—1945.
New York: Bantam, 1973.
The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe, 1933—1945.
New York: Bantam, 1973.
Volavková, H., ed.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Wiesel, Elie.
Night.
New York: Avon, 1972.
Night.
New York: Avon, 1972.
Ziemian, Joseph.
The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square.
New York: Avon, 1977.
The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square.
New York: Avon, 1977.
Acknowledgements
My most heartfelt thanks go to my beloved parents, who cheered me on and gave me much valuable advice and support in completing my manuscript.
I am immensely grateful to my editor, Denise Johnstone-Burt, whose expert guidance, intellect, talent, and love for humanity are shown in this book.
My most ardent thanks go to Distinguished Professor Randolph L. Braham of the City University of New York for sharing his scholarship and for his encouragement. Without his inspiration, friendship, and support, this book would never have been written.
I am indebted to Sharyn November, Nancy Paulsen, Ron Buehl, Iris Rosoff, and Diane Arico for believing in me and opening the doors to the publishing field.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to my dear friends Else Bakke, Orest Dutka, and Mollie Kramer of the New York City Public Library, who helped me so much in spirit and research in completing this book.
Many thanks go to authors Judy Blume and Herman Wouk for lending a helping hand.
I am deeply grateful for and will never forget the help given me by Art Raymond, of radio station WEVD, who was the first to bring my writing to the attention of a large audience.
My thanks go to composers Rosalie Commentucci-O’Hara, with whom my dream began, and to Barney Bragin, James Donenfeld, and Sol Zim, who added so much talent to my words.
I am grateful for the permission to reproduce photographs from the Kulturamt-Stadtarchiv, Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, State Jewish Museum in Prague, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Appreciation goes to Dr. Karel Jindrak for his English translation of the Czech folk song “Spring Is in the Coming.”
I would like to thank the following for their help: Dr. Kurt Maier, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith, the American Jewish Committee, Benjamin and Vladka Meed of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and filmmaker Emanuel Rund.
I am thankful to many people, too numerous to mention, whose omission is no measure of the help they gave me in achieving an important point in my life.
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work means freedom
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Grandma
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Memorial
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Sabbath
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Holiday bread
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