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From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation
Overview
On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers.
Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed.
Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year.
Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780316513081 |
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Publisher: | Hachette Books |
Publication date: | 05/15/2018 |
Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Sales rank: | 952,750 |
File size: | 24 MB |
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About the Author
Glenn Frank is a Boston-based real-estate attorney and the author of Abe Gilman's Ending.
Brian Wallace served as a Massachusetts state representative from 2003 to 2011. He grew up in South Boston and as a child met Steve Ross when Ross was assigned to his school as a youth worker. He credits Ross with inspiring him to stay in school and pursue his dream of becoming a politician.
Table of Contents
Foreword Ray Flynn ix
Introduction Michael Ross xiii
1 From Broken Glass 1
2 The Trouble in the World 3
3 A Life in America 9
4 Goodbye Lodz 15
5 Neighborhood Services 31
6 A Safe Way Out 37
7 A Friend in Boston 59
8 The Farm 65
9 Grandpa 75
10 The Forest 81
11 Memory and Escape 93
12 Dreaming of Home 99
15 The Man Who Lost His Way 113
14 Work and Death 117
15 Intervention 123
16 Self-Preservation 127
17 Pinia 143
18 Opening the Vault 151
19 Herzil 155
20 The End of Hope 167
21 Heart Trouble 173
22 Escape from Budzyn 177
23 Radom 179
24 No Matter How Bad 189
25 The Honor of Work 193
26 The Train to Auschwitz 199
27 How I Learned of Robert Hall 203
28 Tattooed 211
29 Matriculation 219
30 An Empire Falls 223
31 Dead, Gone, and Forgotten 227
32 The Busing Crisis 231
33 Guns in the Distance 237
34 To Never Forget 241
35 Memorial Rising 249
36 Liberation 253
Acknowledgments 263