The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust [Hardcover]

Vividly traces the paths of Holocaust survivors who risked everything again to make a new life in Palestine.One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine.From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories--some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we--and don't we--remember the Holocaust today? This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers.Introduction1. Rivne - Bandera's Victory2. Vilnius - Harmatz's Choice3. Auschwitz - Who Is For Life?4. Krakow - The Homecoming5. Tarvisio - The Gateway to Zion6. Nuremburg - An Eye for an Eye7. Dachau - Human Debris8. St Ottilien - The Doctor and His Patients9. Landsberg - The Town Where Nothing Happened10. Munich - The Survivors' Passover11. Milan - Peddling History12. Selvino - The Most Vulnerable People in the World13. Fiesole - The Lost Boys of the Bencista14. Santa Maria di Bagni - Time to Breathe15. Magenta - The Secret Camp16. New York - F***B Shipping17. La Spezia - Move Over Paul Newman18. Haifa - The People's Trafalgar19. Tel Aviv - Only YesterdayAfterwordRosie Whitehouse is a journalist specializing in Jewish life after the Holocaust. She writes for BBC Online, theObserver,The Independent,Tabletmagazine,The Jewish Chronicle,Haaretzand others. A graduate of the London School of Economics, she is an historical advisor at the Vienna-based Centropa, a Jewish history institute. A remarkable story. --The Times

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