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- The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger: Revised Edition (Life Writi
- ISBN
- 9781771120111
- EAN
- 9781771120111
- Book Title
- Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger : Revised Edition
- Book Series
- Life Writing Ser.
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Ancient / General, Holocaust, Cultural Heritage, Children's Studies, Personal Memoirs, Administration / Higher
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN-10
1771120118
ISBN-13
9781771120111
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175860561
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger : Revised Edition
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / General, Holocaust, Cultural Heritage, Children's Studies, Personal Memoirs, Administration / Higher
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History
Book Series
Life Writing Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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This is like a detective story where we are also taken on the journey with the authors and become witnesses to the discovery of evidence that, in every detail, supports Israel's memories and stories. I have seldom been so moved that I literally stop everything else, including eating until I reach the end. There is a tension between the utter honesty and attention to detail of Israel's story, and the need to dig deeper and find out more emotionally. It makes this book powerful and indeed, empowering. This is storytelling / history / memoir / biography at its very best. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger deserves an award for its content but also its methodology. It provides a useful blueprint for other writing-interviewing partnerships and shows how dedication to the cause can lead to an incredibly compelling book.... You cannot read this book fast. It is a slow read. It needs to be. Nor can you put it down. So, be prepared to find a safe haven, take plenty of time, and begin this journey. You will not emerge the same person as you began. This is one of those unique, life-changing books., ''This is like a detective story where we are also taken on the journey with the authors and become witnesses to the discovery of evidence that, in every detail, supports Israel's memories and stories. I have seldom been so moved that I literally stop everything else, including eating until I reach the end. There is a tension between the utter honesty and attention to detail of Israel's story, and the need to dig deeper and find out more emotionally. It makes this book powerful and indeed, empowering. This is storytelling / history / memoir / biography at its very best. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger deserves an award for its content but also its methodology. It provides a useful blueprint for other writinginterviewing partnerships and shows how dedication to the cause can lead to an incredibly compelling book.... You cannot read this book fast. It is a slow read. It needs to be. Nor can you put it down. So, be prepared to find a safe haven, take plenty of time, and begin this journey. You will not emerge the same person as you began. This is one of those unique, life-changing books.'', In a small town in Poland, nine Jews hid from the Nazis in an attic crawl space for two years. All of them survived. Israel Unger, professor and dean emeritus of the University of New Brunswick, was one of them. With the help of Carolyn Gammon, Unger has shared his story in the Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger . Unger says the idea to write this book was not his, it was Gammon's. 'When she first suggested to me that we write a book, my answer to her was that there wasn't a book, that my memories were not very extensive because I was so young at the time,' he says. Unger was five when they first hid in the attic, seven when they left that tiny space after Poland was liberated. 'And I was 1 1/2 when the German war machine crashed into Poland,' he notes. 'But Carolyn then said, what happened afterwards is also interesting.' Looking at himself as a representative of what happened to many survivors, he realized that there might be a book. 'There were 350,000 Jews that survived Poland--10 per cent of the 3.5 million that were living there before the war--and I was one of those,' says Unger. 'It seemed to me, in telling the story, you could also tell in some ways the story of many other people.'... What [Unger] found particularly gratifying was that the external reviewer said his story wasn't just part of Holocaust history, it's part of Canadian history. The reviewer also said his story filled a gap. 'To me, it was kind of a justification for the book, that somebody considers it a part of Canadian history,' he says., [ The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger ] is a powerful story of courage, survival, humility, and love--love of family, love of community, and love of peace, justice, and truth.... Unger and his collaborator, Carolyn Gammon, wrote this book clearly intending to tell the story of an extraordinary life. In the process, it became more than just a writing exercise for them. Like so many works motivated by passion and discovery and framed within the borders of historical and family narratives, this book became a journey of self-discovery and narrative renewal.... This book of memory is as finely written an account of a life as I have read., The book's final section sets it apart from many other memoirs, in detailing the extensive research undertaken by Unger and Gammon, greatly facilitated by the internet, to reconstruct the circumstances of his Holocaust childhood: the hiding place, the Polish citizens who helped the nine Jews, others who knew about their refuge but did not denounce them, and even the fates of the five others who hid with the Unger family. Correspondence and personal encounters with various helpful and unhelpful Polish authorities enliven this account. A high point is Unger's meeting with the mill owner's son, who had known about the hidden Jews, and the discovery of and visits with two women from the group, sisters living in Israel. Another strength of the book is its rich photographic documentation, again largely the result of careful research.... Gammon and Unger have produced a readable, unpretentious, straightforward book that will be of interest to those studying immigration and exile, Holocaust memoir, and Canadian university life. Closing the account, the reader is inclined to agree with Unger's assertion that 'every survivor story ... is unique and extraordinary' and to concur with his own self-assessment: 'I have had a very good life.'
Series Volume Number
48
Dewey Decimal
940.53/18092
Table Of Content
Table of Contents for The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger by Carolyn Gammon and Israel Unger Dedications Acknowledgements Foreword by Israel Unger Part I: The Only Jews in Poland Srulik is born in Tarnow Wysiedlenia My Father's Courage Dagnam's Flour Mill The Hideout The Only Jews in Poland Kissing a Soviet Soldier's Boot Matzos from America Part II: Sans Pays The Kielce Pogrom and a Gash on the Head Becoming "Orphans" Aix-les-Bains Sans Pays in Paris Charlie and Sydney in London Back to Paris, Quartier Pére Lachaise Visions of Canada: Mounties, Snow, and Sheepskin Part III: Canadian Through and Through An Airplane, a Stevedore, and His Plymouth: Arriving at Pier 21 Home à la Mordecai Richler Ich hab dir gegebn lebn zwei mol--"I gave you life twice" The Yeshiva and Bnei Akiva Canada Through and Through The Octet Rule Collecting Butcher Bills Kafkaesque Encounters My Brother Charlie Part IV: The Bubble Counter Leaving Home: Montreal to Fredericton The Bubble Counter Photochemistry in Texas Under the Chuppah in Minto, New Brunswick The Young Professor--From Texas to Saint John ALS--My Father's Death Charlie's Troubles A Mark for Canada Sharon and Sheila The Best Granny Part V: Dean Unger Dean Unger Struggles with Charlie My Mother and Her Backbone of Steel Marlene Making Up for Lost Time Airplane Accident Telling My Story Part VI: "They Know My Name is Srulik!" Return to Tarnow A Modern Righteous Gentile: Meeting Adam Bartosz Meeting Mr. Dagnan Skorupa Kalman Goldberg--Outside the Hideout Rescue Children, Inc. Ryglice and Dabrowa State Archives and Registry Office My Birth House Matzevahs for my Family "They know my name is Srulik!" "How did the Holocaust affect you?" Afterword: Writing The Unwritten Diary by Carolyn Gammon Postscript Dagnan's List Acknowledgements Bibliography
Edition Description
Revised edition,New Edition
Synopsis
This is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to offer. This revised edition includes a reproduction of Dagnan's List, a list of Jewish slave labourer similar Schindler's List, made famous in the Steven Spielberg movie., At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults were able to forage outside at night. Against all odds, they emerged alive. Now, decades later, here is Unger's "unwritten diary." At the end of the war, following a time as people sans pays , the Unger family immigrated to Canada. After discovering a love of chemistry, Israel Unger had a stellar academic career, married, and raised a family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to offer. This revised edition includes a reproduction of Dagnan's List, a list of Jewish slave labourer similar Schindler's List, made famous in the Steven Spielberg movie. The name of Israel Unger's father appears on the list, in which Dagnan declares that Unger is an "essential worker"--a ruse that may have saved the father's life. This recently discovered document proves that Israel Unger's memory of this key part of the story was accurate. A new postscript details the importance of this startling document.
Copyright Date
2013
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