Hanushka: Quest for Freedom is a true story that takes place during the time of Nazi and the Communist regimes in Poland. (Hanushka is a diminutive form of my formal name Halina.) The struggle for survival from an early age made me strong, determined, and even defiant when necessary. When I was a foreign language teacher at Reno high school, my students were always fascinated by my stories about the war. From these experiences, I know that young readers will enjoy the story and will gain insights into dignity, pride, respect, morality, desire for education, courage, loyalty and, above all, responsibility. Nv * Local Review An intriguing tale of war, occupation, family ties, love and determination. It is a true story based on Halina Chanklers life behind the Iron Curtain, and her escape from it. The story moves from her childood in Poland, to adulthood in Germany and France, and describes her will and strength to survive, love and succeed at life. It is also a timely statement regarding tolerance, love of mankind forgiveness and finding peace in everyday encounters with all peoples. Barbara Lentz, MLS Library Manager Sparks Library / Sparks Nevada *The following are 2 of 4 poems written by a highschool girl after reading "Hanushka". The Nightmare When you wake in lthe night. and everythings strange.. And you dont know the reason why everythings changed.. Youve heard all the stories of why this is so.. but deep in your heart, you dont really know. Its a nightmare youre living.. a nightmare called life.. and you dont know each day if you will survive. Julianne Burgarello Galena High School / Reno Nv Leaving One Life and Starting Another What could be worse than what it is now? What could this change make better? Im leaving behind all that i know My mother, my child, my brother. This world that i know is dark and tense.. each morning i wake to fear.. I cannot plan what must be done.. God, help me go on from here. Julianne Burgarello Galena High School / Reno,

Jascha Kessler has published 7 books of his poetry and fiction as well as 6 volumes of translations of poetry and fiction from Hungarian, Persian and Bulgarian, several of which have won major prizes. In 1989, his translation of Sndor Rkos CATULLAN GAMES won the Translation Award from the National Translation Center (MARLBORO PRESS). His latest volume of fiction, SIREN SONGS & CLASSICAL ILLUSIONS: 50 Stories, appeared in December of 1992. His verse translation of Sophocles OEDIPUS TYRANNUS, with an Introduction, appears in 1998 (University of Pennsylvania Press). He served as Arts Commissioner for the City of Santa Monica 1990-1996, and won a Fellowship in Fiction Writing for 1993-1994 from the California Arts Council.

A sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt and Winner of the 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo's Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other men, in the infamous Queen Boat affair that targeted Egypt's gay community. Finally free, but traumatized into speechlessness, Hani writes down the events of his life--his first sexual desires, his relationship with his mother, his marriage of convenience, and his passion for Abdel Aziz, the only man he ever truly loved. In the Spider's Room is a bold tale of sexuality and persecution in contemporary Egypt.

The story of a Holocaust survivor who was only 11 when war broke out in Europe.

A collection of accounts by Holocaust survivors (some of which appeared in the earlier edition of this book, published in 1992, and in other collections of testimonies compiled by Jehoshuah Eibeshitz). The accounts are mainly by Orthodox Jews from Poland. Many of them, including a memoir by Eilenberg-Eibeshitz, deal with the Łódź ghetto. Others describe internment in Auschwitz and other Nazi camps. Particular attention is given to the abortive attempt at a Jewish uprising in Auschwitz in 1944. Pp. 285-306 contain excerpts from the diary of Sarah Fishkin, from Rubieżewicze (now Rubezhevichi, Belarus), who perished in the Holocaust. Believes that eyewitness accounts can be an indispensable source for historians of the Holocaust, as well as a weapon against Holocaust denial.