Say The Name A Survivor's Tale In Prose And Poetry

Say the Namevividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of family and other Jews and emigrates to England and, eventually, the United States. After more than fifty years Sherman gets up from her years of memories, private resistance, and public silence to write this book. She is triggered to do so upon hearing a lecture by Professor Carrasco at Princeton on "Religion and the Terror of History."The narrative is interspersed with Sherman's powerful poems that grab the reader's attention. Poignant original drawings made secretly by imprisoned women of Ravensbruck, at risk of their lives, illuminate the text. Sherman courageously bears witness to the terror of man and simultaneously challenges God for answers.This book should "jolt us into remembrance, warning, and action."From Say the NameSurvivor's Legacy Wish to Her ChildrenBread, always bread stars that lighten the heavens not brand your chests always, always—water trains to journeys of delight with seats, windows, tickets of return no accent; fathers to hold your children’s hand children who outgrow their shoes Your mantle of Jew” of cloth so light so safe so Kol B’Seder; mothers—oh yes—mothers— mothers you can stand up to! Israel to fill your soul.and what of Auschwitz memory? that too is in your legacy.Sherman, Judith H. is the author of 'Say The Name A Survivor's Tale In Prose And Poetry', published 2005 under ISBN 9780826334329 and ISBN 0826334326.