Flares of Memory : Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust Book

	Foreword
	Timeline of the Holocaust
	Map of Concentration Camps in Europe
	Preface
	Introduction
	Snapshots	2
	War Arrives in Lithuania	3
	A German Family	7
	Betrayal	11
	Parting	13
	Herr B.	17
	A Kristallnacht Journey	18
	An Action against the Jews	20
	Leaving Germany, Leaving Home	24
	Escape to England	26
	The Best-Laid Plans	28
	A Life-Defining Impression	30
	The Harbinger of What?	32
	The Beginning and the End	33
	A Family Gone, One by One	34
	The Abandonment of Mielec	36
	A Shtetl's Life Is Ended	37
	What Ever Happened to the Jews of Skudvil?	40
	In the Dark	45
	Thereienstadt	47
	Dachau	50
	Auschwitz, 1944	55
	The Tenth Woman on Block Ten	56
	The Means to Survive	58
	The Gypsies	60
	Nazi Murderers	61
	How Many Made It?	63
	The Law in Lithuania	64
	Horrors of War	70
	German Roulette	83
	My Sister Rieke	84
	A Definition of Survival	86
	An Unforgettable Passover Seder	89
	Trying to Go Home	90
	Bar Mitzvah Boy	93
	The Skull with the Golden Braid	95
	The Concentration Camp Lottery	96
	The Girl with Wooden Shoes	101
	The Wagon	102
	The Child	103
	In Constant Terror	107
	Posing as a Christian	114
	I Choose Life	116
	Lost Families	119
	Beyond Memory	121
	A Hidden Child in Greece	123
	The Promise	144
	A Mother's Courage	147
	Miracles	151
	A Dream of Milk	155
	In Praise of Manual Labor	156
	A Son in Deed	158
	The Psychologist	162
	A Narrow Escape	165
	The Kindness of Strangers	168
	A Saintly Person	170
	The Convent in Marseilles	173
	Among the Righteous	176
	The Killing Hunger	179
	Captain Zimmer	180
	The Volunteer Group	181
	Mazel	182
	The Farmer Kowarski	185
	A Surprise Package	187
	Lithuanian Friends	191
	Unsung Heroes	199
	Friend or Enemy?	202
	Resist in Everything!	208
	The Golden Chain of Judaism	227
	Flight to Freedom	236
	The Last Hiding Place	243
	One Day War, the Next Day Not	245
	The Long Road after Liberation	247
	On the Way to Health	249
	An Ending and a Beginning	252
	The Tiny Flame	254
	The Aftermath	258
	The Barber	260
	Kaleidoscope: Salonika, Greece, 1945	261
	The Sewing Basket	263
	Children from the Camps Going to England	265
	The Chief of the Gestapo	268
	Herr Schluemper	270
	The Miracle	272
	To Bear Witness about the Holocaust	274
	It Shall Not Be Forgotten Nor Forgiven!	276
	The Photograph	281
	Germany, 1945: View from a Tank	283
	Gusen: A Nurse's Tale	286
	A Letter from Dachau	288
	I Saw Buchenwald	291
	Re-Entry	296
	Biographies of Survivor-Authors	298
	Photographs of Liberator-Authors	336
	Author Index	342
	Story Index	343