Malka Owsiany Recounts...

A chronicle of our time

Mark Turkow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2025
Cherry Orchard Books (Verlag)
979-8-88719-815-6 (ISBN)

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First published in Yiddish in 1946 and translated into Spanish in 2001, this is the first time that Malka Owsiany’s story is available in English. Malka describes the horrors of the Holocaust but also the richness of Polish Jewish life and communities. We also learn about Malka rebuilding her life and marrying a fellow survivor, Meir. Meir and Malka built a family as well as an enduring legacy of strength and dedication to the Jewish community and Yiddish culture.

Mark Turkow (1904–1983) was a journalist and writer born in Warsaw, Poland, who settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1930. He wrote in both Yiddish and Spanish. Turkow made an impact leading HIAS—an organization that implements Jewish values to support refugees. Turkow also served as a representative of the World Jewish Congress for Latin America. He published dozens of booklets on distinguished Jewish intellectuals and spiritual leaders. The Documentation and Information Center on Argentinean Jewry was named after him. Sandra Chiritescu holds a PhD in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University. She is writing her dissertation on Yiddish and second-wave feminism. She is a Yiddish teacher at the Worker's Circle and has translated Yiddish children’s stories for the volume In the Land of Happy Tears (Penguin Random House, 2018)

Introduction to the 1946 Yiddish Edition: To the Readers

Preface

I. Malka Owsiany Recounts . . .

II. In the “Happy” Shtetl of Raków

III. This Is How It Began

IV. Expulsion from Raków

V. The Polish Neighbors

VI. The Last Jews in Chmielnik

VII. The Tragic Twenty-Four Hours

VIII. Slave Work

IX. In the Nazi War Industry

X. Slave Life

XI. The Announcement of Collapse

XII. When Digging German Trenches

XIII. Oświęcim/Auschwitz

XIV. Number 68.313

XV. The Republic of Imprisoned Women

XVI. In the Days of the Nazism’s Death Throes

XVII. The End of Slavery

XVIII. The Path to Freedom

XIX. New People

XX. Freed—But Still Not Free

XXI. The Last Camp

The War Has Been Lost for Us (Instead of an Epilogue)

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Memories

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2025
Übersetzer	Sandra Chiritescu
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
ISBN-13	979-8-88719-815-6 / 9798887198156
Zustand	Neuware