A Cup of Honey: The Story of a Young Holocaust Survivor, Eliezer Ayalon [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Biography &Amp; Autobiography)
  • Author:  Friedman, Neile Sue
  • Author:  Friedman, Neile Sue
  • ISBN-10:  1590793064
  • ISBN-10:  1590793064
  • ISBN-13:  9781590793060
  • ISBN-13:  9781590793060
  • Publisher:  SelectBooks
  • Publisher:  SelectBooks
  • Pages:  256
  • Pages:  256
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Feb-2014
  • Pub Date:  01-Feb-2014
  • SKU:  1590793064-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  1590793064-11-SPLV
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? In a chance meeting in the 1980s, I had a discussion with Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust author, historian, and teacher. I told him that I had not been able to tell my story. He said that it was my obligation to speak out and to tell the world about the Holocaust. He told me that I had survived for a reason-to tell the world what had happened to my family and to me.

Suddenly I remembered that my mother had once told me the same thing-that it wasbeshert, or meant to be, that I survive to tell the story of my family.

-Eliezer Ayalon

For ten-year-old Lazorek Hershenfis in Radom, Poland, life with his family is joyful. Lazoreks father, Israel (known as Srul) operates a leather-cutting business from the front of the familys sparsely furnished, one0romm apartment, and the family spends idyllic summers harvesting fruit from orchards in the nearby countryside. His brothers Mayer and Abush work as tailors to supplement the familys income, slipping Lazorek occasional pocket money for the movies with friends. Lazoreks sister Chaya is a kindergarten teacher and a playmate especially cherished, whether the game is catch the homemade balls of the challenging strulkies with stones. A deeply respected healer in the community, Lazoreks beautiful mother Rivka shows him the meaning of caring unselfishly for others, from the breastfeeding the child of an ill friend as if it were her own and preparing special food for Lazorek himself to making middle-of-the-night visits to help sick neighbor. But what is given does not always appear to be returned in kind, as Lazorek discovers on his journey into the ghetto and the concentration camps.

Although Lazoreks father and mother sell much of their jewelry and silver for cash to pay for a visa to Palestine the British mandatory government denies the application. It is then that they lose hope of a better life, and according to Lazorek, events begin to happen so quickl3#

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