Ebook: Gazing at the stars: memories of a child survivor

These events, the persecution of my people, have simply become part of the collection of facts that people now call 'history'. I lived these facts every day. They are part of my memory. 'History' tells us that the Jews of Bratislava were persecuted by the invading Nazis. What it doesn't tell us is how it feels, as a nine-year-old girl, to have your bicycle forced from your hands, confiscated by a soldier while your father watches, powerless.;Front cover; Copyright; GAZING AT THE STARS; Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Childhood; Weiss & Kerpel; A Premonition; Invasion; Why Didn't We Leave?; Loss; Duty; Can You Hear Us?; The Ghetto; Who Will Live and Who Will Die?; An Only Child; 'I Will Be Spared'; Our Last Goodbye; Alone; Interrogation; Gombárik; Torture; Caught; Orphaned, All of Us; Our First Day; The Familienlager; A27201; Toddlers' Barracks; Mengele; Hospital; The Sound of Defeat; No One Was Waiting for Us; 'We Are on Our Own'; Days of Walking; Anywhere but Here; Convalescence; They Are Alive; Arriving Home; Everyone Returning.