[bksvol-discuss] Just submitted Nonfiction: The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle Of Survival
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:39:51 -0500
Hi everyone!
Here is a book for whoever would like to proofread it.
Book Information
ISBN:
0-89604-047-X
Title:
The Pit And The Trap: A Chronicle Of Survival
Author(s):
Leyb Rochman, Sheila Friedling (Editor), O. Kohn (Translator)
Publisher:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright Date:
1983
Copyrighted By:
Esther Rochman
Brief Synopsis:
... During the Holocaust, total darkness reigned in the world. The Jew was
regarded
as an insect to be stomped out.... "The Pit & the Trap" stays scrupulously
close
to the facts, complete with accurate names and dates. It is a book of hope:
a tempered
faith in humankind.
Long Synopsis:
... During the Holocaust, total darkness reigned in the world. The Jew
reached his
point of utter degradation: an insect to be stomped out. Rochman's story
has a different
twist from most other Holocaust literature, however. ... Though it stays
scrupulously
close to the facts, complete with accurate names and dates, "The Pit & the
Trap"
is a book of hope. Not of facile hope or of saccharine optimism but of a
tempered
faith in humankind.
LEYB ROCHMAN (1918-1978) was born in Minsk-Mazowiecki, some twenty-five
miles from
Warsaw. As a young man, he was close to Porisover Hasidim and studied in
the Amudei
Torah yeshiva in Warsaw. Prior to the war he was a journalist for the
Warsaw Yiddish
press. The Germans occupied Minsk-Mazowiecki on 13 September 1939 and
established
a ghetto there in October 1940. Rochman was married in the ghetto, shortly
before
escaping its final liquidation. While still in hiding, he began to keep a
record
of his experiences which he completed in Switzerland soon after the war. It
was published
in Paris under the title And in Your Blood Shall You Live and won the
Hoffer-Leyb
Prize awarded by the World Congress for Jewish Culture in 1949. Everything
contained
in this harrowing chronicle actually happened. Except for Froiman, who now
lives
in the USA, all those who hid together with the author settled in Israel
after the
War. Itche-Konyak, the sixteen-year-old boy from Kaluszyn, was killed
fighting in
the War of Independence.
Rochman's daughter, Rivka Miriam, is a noted artist and Hebrew poet; his
son Yehoshua,
is a concert violinist.
Comments:
This book needs the usual sizing and bolding, though it didn't have
headings or anything
but white space to indicate a chapter change, so I used three pluses to
indicate
the beginning of each chapter, since three asterisks were used in the hard
copy to
indicate scene change or time passing. I think I might have put in too many
instances
of asterisks in a chapter, so you can remove any that have a date after
them within
the chapter, since I forgot to check that before submitting. You can change
the series
of pluses to asterisks to size at 16 and bold when you come to each one.
There are some typos in the book. In a few places in the following typo
list, I have
put in parentheses what should have been there to avoid any confusion. Here
is the
list:
50
"What new, Popowski?"
70
I couln't look her in the eyes.
71
Kontraktowicz was sitting in front of his house listening to the sounds of
gunfire
that came form town.
121
Mrs. Felek starts cursing us: Go to the devil together with Aunie! (It
should be
"Auntie".)
152
But the screams keep coming from out pit.
182
We just want ot stretch out on the ground, shut our eyes, and lie still.
193
except for the noise coming from the middle of the barn I couln't hear a thing.
196
As she approached the barn door, she called out: "Tursh, trush, trush!"
("trush"
is correct.)
198
Once they bound his hands and feets, and tied him by the neck to a fence.
205
Itche again led me throught the dark fields and woods.
251
He could not longer carry on.
255
The day before yesterday Szube helped us set up a tall ladder across the
cover of
out pit, ...
Adult content:
No
Language:
English US
Book Quality:
EXCELLENT
Categories:
Nonfiction,
History,
Biographies and Memoirs
Debby
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The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, But the mouth of fools pours
forth foolishness.
Proverbs 15:2 NKJV
"Teach me, and I will hold my tongue
; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Job 6:24 NKJV
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