Golda's Stories
of the Holocaust
By: Golda Sandman
The True Stories of a Holocaust Survivor who survived
Six Years in the Concentration Camps
Golda Sandman
was born in the small city of Strachovitsa in south Poland. At the beginning of
World War II she was a girl age eighteen. After the occupation by the Germans
she was sent from the ghetto to a work camp in the city. Later she was sent to
Auschwitz Birkenau and from there to Bergen-Belzen.
She spent
totally six years in concentration camps.
After the war
ended she went to Sweden, and from there immigrated to the Land of Israel in
illegal immigrants' ship. After hard years of absorption she established a
family.
Golda's
Stories has a plot which sounds unbelievable. She decided not to surrender to
evil and survived under the harshest terms. She dealt with illegal commerce and
smuggling, endangered her life many times to save people, and acted intuitively
opposite death many times. Her physical and mental sufferings were
unprecedented. She survived the death camps barely alive and gained her health
again.
She triumphed
to bestow her memoirs to the next generations, in memory of the heroism of the
Jews that perished in the holocaust.
The book
defines new borders of humanity, femininity and heroism, which reach in it
heights that were considered impossible up to here.
Although it's
a personal memory, the book can serve as an accurate, comprehensive
presentation of the whole era, because the stories extend from the 1930th to
the 1950th.
The book combines the two points of view of Golda's child. He listens to
the stories of his mother eagerly and believes her, but he lives in the reality
of present day life, where the stories sound imaginary.
The literary result maintains the emotional connection between mother
and son, and encounters it with the unbelievable content.
Some chapters are available for reading for anyone who is interested in the subject.