tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7457679151852695942012-02-16T18:13:41.663-08:00"...there was the one who refused to die in the Nazi killing fields of the Ukraine. Everything he was, everything he is, everything we are, and everything we will become was forged in those blood-soaked years when a 14-year-old walked out of the valley of death to give us life" - this blog is devoted to promoting Here My Home Once Stood -my grandfather's holocaust memoir.Phil Shpilberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16189828462951335241noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745767915185269594.post-22478803729366195152012-01-04T10:10:00.000-08:002012-01-04T10:16:09.865-08:00

I am very excited to offer HMOS on Kindle. The economics of physical printing didn't allow me to offer the book at a reasonable rate. $29.99 is steep for about 150 pages. But digital publishing changes everything. I set the price at $3.99. Now anyone that has an interest in the topic can buy it and read it on a Kindle, iOS device, Android device, PC or Mac.

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I am very happy to be getting some favorable reviews. A few people have made positive comments on Amazon. The latest is from Kirkus Discoveries:----------------A gripping tale that traces the unlikely survival of a Ukrainian teen during the Holocaust. The atrocities of the Holocaust have provided the backdrop for many books and films, but few are as detailed and harrowing as Rekhtman’s

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I am sorry I have not posted in the last several months. I had been busy putting the final touches on the book.It is now available on many major sites including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.Any proceeds from this book, and I am sure there will be little, will go to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This book is the result of three years of audio recording by my grandfather an an

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I want you to know about my family and friends, and about my village, Kalyus, where I passed my short and difficult childhood. Unfortunately, I cannot take you to the place where I was born because, among other reasons, we now live very far from where I once lived. My children and grandchildren will likely never visit the soil where my family history took place. Instead I will tell you everything

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Full German authority was established at the end of October 1941. Only then did we wholly comprehend the meaning of the Nazi new world order. The Germans did not rob us; there was nothing left to take. They did, however, double our abuse and humiliation. Now we had both the Germans and the policemen, and the Ukrainian policemen became even crueler to please their German masters. At this time we

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We marched to Novaya Ushitsa under the guard of a police envoy. In the evening we arrived at a Jewish ghetto in the city. Two rows of barbed wire enclosed several streets where the entire Jewish population of the town was forced to live. Policemen guarded the ghetto around the clock. Jewish policemen, who were assigned by the Ukrainian authorities, kept order inside the ghetto. These Jewish

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The returning prisoners questioned us about life outside the camp. They all had families somewhere and were desperate to find out what was happening. We in turn asked them about life in the camp. I found out that the camp was located in the Ukrainian town of Letichev. The prisoner population numbered about two thousand five hundred Jews from the Kamenets-Podolskaya and Vinitskaya oblasts. Most

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At the end of one day in August, after the usual activities at the square, I noticed new people at the soup line. Among them were a few people from Kalyus. I ran to them to find out if any of my relatives were among them. They told me that my uncle Yankel and my grandfather’s brother and his two sons, Friedel and Razer, were in the camp. Uncle Yankel was my father’s brother. I pushed through the

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Patrick Desbois roams Ukraine’s back roads and forgotten fields to document the Nazis’ murder of 1.5 million Jews. - New York Times, 10/6/07

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