A Quote for Yom Ha Shoah – Holocaust Rememberance Day

“This was the end. This was the sum total of hundreds of generations of building, of Torah, of piety, of freethinking, of Zionism, of Bundism, of struggles and of battles, of the hopes of an entire people – this empty desert I looked around me at what had been the Jews of Warsaw. I felt one hope, and I feel it now. May this sea of emptiness bubble and boil, may it cry out eternal
condemnation of the murderers and pilagers, may it be forever the shame of the civilized world which saw and heard and chose to remain silent”

B Goldstein (2005). Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: the stars bear witness
Oakland CA AK Press

Epigraph: Richards, A (2012). Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture. Holes in the Doorposts in  The Power of Witnessing edited by N Goodman and M Meyers. Routledge New York
London,

Click Here for the Website for The Power of Witnessing

The Power of Witnessing, the Holocaust, and the Living Mind

 

Click Here to Read:  Invitation for the Book Launch of the Power of Witnessing on May 6th in Washington DC.  Nancy Goodman and Marilyn Meyers with Gail Humphries: “Giving Voice to the Silenced”.   Hear from contributors: Margit Meissner, Arlene Kramer Richards, Arnold Richards, Katalin Roth, Myra Sklarew, Nina Shapiro-Perl, George Halasz, Paula Ellman, Harriet Basseches, Susan Elmendorf and others.

CITY WITHIN A CITY Book Launch Live Recording!

Click Here to Purchase: City Winin a City from IPBooksNY Book Launch for CITY WITHIN A CITY
 by Basia Temkin-Berman First English  Translation!

Click links below to hear live audio recordings made at the book-launch event on  March 2, 2012 in New York City (cosponsored by IPBooks & YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.)

1. Jonathan Brent, Director of YIVO, Introduction

2. Dr. Emanuel Berman, author’s son, editor, and psychoanalyst

3. Samuel Kassow, historian, author of Who Will Write our History?

4. Leon Hoffman, psychoanalyst, book-dedication to Leon Kupferstein (introduced by Dr. Berman)

5. Aviva Blumberg, Child-survivor of Warsaw Ghetto, saved by Basia Berman (introduced by Dr. Berman)

6. Arnold Richards, psychonalyst, closing remarks

City Within a City was the secret diary written in Polish in 1944 when Basia (Batya) and her husband Adolf-Abraham Berman, lived on the Aryan side of Warsaw—the part designated by the Nazis for Polish Christians only—and led a secret network helping thousands of Jews to hide and survive.

“I would like to describe this state within a state, or rather, a city within a city, this most underground of all underground communities, whose members met with each other, worked and talked in the midst of a population which didn’t suspect anything; where every street, every coffee shop, every tram stop called to mind dozens of unique adventures. Every name was false, every word that was uttered carried a double meaning, and every telephone conversation was more encrypted than the secret diplomatic documents of embassies.”
—Basia Berman

This unique and historically important book may be purchased at our bookstore by
clicking here: City Within a Cityor atwww.IPBooks.net.