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Ruth Altbeker Cyprys was a young Jewish lawyer who, together with her child Eva, survived WWII in the most extraordinary circumstances.In this journal, written immediately after the War and then hidden away for nearly 50 years, Cyprys tells about the terrifying deportations that began in 1942, about her own incredible escape with her child from a deportation train en route to Treblinka, and about their subsequent struggle to hide, with the help of Christian Poles.As gripping as a novel, this memoir is not only a record of the horrors of the period but also the tale of a woman of phenomenal courage and tenacity.
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From School Library Journal
YAAA spellbinding Holocaust memoir by a woman who lived in the Warsaw ghetto from the beginning to almost the end in 1943. Cyprys was a successful lawyer before the war. When the Nazis attacked Poland in 1939, she only gradually realized the deadly peril faced by all Jews. Her world crumbled as her husband's army unit vanished, her parents escaped, and the Nazis began to enforce humiliating restrictions. Alone, pregnant, and Jewish, she was deprived of her profession, apartment, and social standing and endured forced labor, hunger, overcrowding, constant fatigue, and anguish. Her courage, cleverness, reflexes, and luck saved her many times from deportation to the camps. The lucky possessor of a work permit, she hid her baby under furs she sewed, eluded several roundups, and had a plan when finally entrained to Treblinka. With the baby, she jumped from the moving car, survived the winter night and returned to Warsaw. By an incredible act of kindness, she obtained an Aryan alias and worked as a servant, her baby concealed by the Underground. She chronicled her experiences in a 1946 journal found after her death decades later. This amazing story of courage, cruelty, and compassion will keep YAs turning the pages to the end, and the excellent details of wartime life in the Warsaw ghetto make it a valuable addition to Holocaust collections.ACatherine Noonan, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This journal, written by a middle-class Jewish woman who grew up in Warsaw before the German invasion in 1939, describes the ordeal Cyprys and her child, Eva, endured in German-occupied Poland from the formation of the Warsaw Ghetto through the ghetto uprising in 1944. Well written and edited, the journal reads like a thriller. In one of the most exciting chapters, for instance, Cyprys describes her escape from a train bound for the Treblinka death camp. Another chapter describes the apparent ease (though it was dangerous) with which Ruth could leave the ghetto and move through the Gentile world of Warsaw. Most moving is Cyprys's description of her agony at knowing that for her child's safety the two must separate; she sent Eva to live with a Gentile family. A gripping account of a Jewish woman's determination and resolve to survive the Holocaust; highly recommended for all public libraries and other popular collections.?Mark Weber, Kent State Univ. Lib., Ohio
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The Holocaust journal of a lawyer--one of the few women admitted to Warsaw's bar--who survived largely on her considerable wits and nerve. This valuable journal, written just after the war, was discovered by the author's daughter a half century later, after her mother passed away in 1979. As evidenced in this journal, her courage, stamina, and flair for dramatic details are impressive. For instance, she recalls how in 1939 the haughty German victors marched into Warsaw ``through empty streets where fires had not yet been extinguished and human and animal corpses not buried.'' Her portrait of life in the Warsaw Ghetto is made vivid through such images as the portrait of a young beggar who recites poems to earn a few scraps of bread for his formerly wealthy parents. When Cyprys and her young daughter Eva are captured and put aboard a cattle car for Treblinka, she uses a small metal saw she has concealed in her boot to cut through the bars of a window and, after offering her bag of food to reluctant fellow passengers to throw her child out after her, leaps to freedom in the snowy woods. Her Aryan looks, the gift of a Polish marriage certificate, and her facility with languages help her survive and even visit the Warsaw ghetto and witness the uprising in 1943. She was eventually liberated by the Russians and recovered Eva from the Polish woman who had given her shelter. After the war, Cyprys joined her parents and sister in Palestine. She was uncomfortable there, feeling that ``being Jewish was like choosing to be persecuted, choosing death,'' and eventually joined her brother in England. As Martin Gilbert notes in his brief introduction, this lucid and intense journal is most significant for its rare new glimpses into the Warsaw Ghetto and its uprising. (10 photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
persecution and heroism
By Chapulina R
This wartime memoir was discovered by the author's daughter in 1979, following her mother's death. It relates the events of the Nazi persecution in Poland, the suffering and degradation of the Warsaw Ghetto ... and an extraordinary courage and will to survive. Realizing the fate in store for her, Ruth made plans for escape. In the winter of 1943, she and two-year-old Eva were rounded up and crowded into a cattle-car for the fatal journey to Treblinka. A single chance for life remained to them: a perilous jump from the moving train. Their first night of freedom was spent huddling together in a freezing, abandoned dog-kennel, with Ruth licking her daughter's wounds. In their danger-fraught flight for survival, they encountered kind-hearted Catholics who risked their lives to aid a Jewish mother and child. This book is a powerful first-hand account of terrifying times, and a testimony to a mother's courage.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
How a mother and her child survived Hitler's flames
By Gary Selikow
The journal of Ruth Altbeker tells of of the circumstances and experiences during the Holocaust of a young Jewish lawyer and her small daughter.
The writer of this journal writes with sharp wit and sensitivity and shows a phenomenal memory, and it was this together with her incredible courage, together with the help of Polish friends and acquaintances that allowed Ruth and her baby daughter Eva to survive.
The journal was written soon after the Second World War, but was only published over 50 years later after it was found by her daughters following the writers passing in 1979.
Ruth Altbeker Cyprys writes of her struggle to survive, and keep Eva alive, both in and outside the Warsaw Ghetto.
She vividly recounts the roundups and deportations of Jews to Treblinka death camp beginning in July, 1942.
In those first seven weeks of the terrifying roundups and 'resettlement to the east' 265 000 Warsaw Jews were sent to their deaths in the gas chambers of Treblinka.
It was Ruth Altbeker's escape by jumping out of the train bound for Treblinka, and arranging for her daughter to be thrown after her, that kept them alive.
The author writes of how the Jews of the ghetto kept hope alive in the darkest days when death hang over them like a shadow-their anthem bin the ghetto being Hatikva-the Hope, to become the anthem of the re-established State of Israel after the war, where most Holocaust survivors resettled.
Ruth Altbeker witnessed the liquidation of the Korczac orphanage, from where hundreds of Jewish children were sent to their deaths.
She also deals with the disturbing subject of Jewish informers and those who helped the Nazis in other ways, to destroy their own people.
This is pertinent to read when morally bankrupt people of Jewish birth are doing all they can to destroy the Jewish State and subject her Jews to another Holocaust.
It is important to remember the events of the Holocaust at the time when the fires of hate against Jews and Israel are engulfing the world again, driven by those who would like to see millions of Jews, again, destroyed.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A Fascinating Account by a Polish Jew Who Escaped From a Death Train
By Jan Peczkis
Originally written in 1946, Cyprys' account is remarkably free of the Judeocentric, German-whitewashing, anti-Christian, and anti-Polish tendencies of today. She devotes almost as much attention to German crimes against Poles as to those against Jews. Furthermore, Cyprys makes it clear that the Germans regarded the Poles as having no more inherent right to live than the Jews. Consider what happened when two Poles were mistakenly herded with Jews into a Treblinka-bound train: "Two gentiles in our wagon tried to explain to the Germans that they did not fit into this society and tried to show their documents. All to no avail. `Even if you are not a Jew, you are a damned Pole', yelled the German, and slapped the older woman's face, barking `Polish swine' and with his rifle butt drove her to the wagon." (p. 95).
Cyprys reported a balanced range of Polish attitudes towards Jews (pp. 118-119, 127, 132), some of which varied within the same family (pp. 142-143). Ironically, she was helped by the obsessively anti-Semitic Mrs. Zosia, who felt sorry for the Jews and who aided them (pp. 220-221).
In his FEAR, Jan Tomasz Gross presents a distorted view of Poles acquiring Jewish properties during the German occupation. In contrast, when mentioning how some Poles pretended to be Volksdeutsche in order to join in the German-sponsored pillage of Jewish properties, she nevertheless added: "The local mob usually guided the Germans to the rich Jewish houses and stores. With the deepest shame I must admit that there were some Jews among the scum." (pp. 25-26).
One inflammatory Polonophobic Holocaust myth is the one about Jews, while being transported to the death camps and with full knowledge of their impending deaths, being forced to endure the sight of indifferent or gleeful Polish onlookers. Against such nonsense, we learn that the death trains had small, barred windows well above eye level, and with nothing to stand on in order to look out of them (p. 96). Viewing (in either direction) was nearly impossible. The author and her daughter were loaded on a Treblinka-bound train. It was only with the greatest difficulty that Cyprys was boosted up and enabled to cut through the bars to jump out and to have her daughter Eva (Ewa) get pushed out.
The oft-quoted Polish remarks about Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising "getting burned like bugs", although invariably presented as such, wasn't necessarily derogatory. After all, Poles used the same phrase to refer to themselves in the face of their defenselessness against German incendiary bombing during the Warsaw Uprising! (p. 200).
The Germans strongly promoted alcoholism among Poles. This was done in order to degrade them (Lemkin elaborated on this) and to exploit this dependency as leverage in the denunciation of fugitive Jews (p. 174).
Cyprys elaborates on the semi-collaborationist Polish Blue Police (Policja Granatowa): "There were policemen who would accept neither bribes nor ransoms but, for the sake of their ideology, would hand over the Jews. Looking at this group objectively, however, one has to say that among their ranks there were many Volksdeutsch volunteers. The activities of the Polish police aroused such hostility among the majority of the Polish people, that death sentences were passed on several policemen by the Polish underground organizations and executions were carried out by Polish lads...upon the orders of the Organization a detailed list of all policemen was kept in the Underground offices. These contained, apart from proved misconduct, evidence of their standard of living which ascertained whether a dark blue was profiteering from blackmail or extortion. These lists of evidence were kept till the Warsaw Uprising: I do not know whether they survived the insurrection." (p. 138).
However, by no stretch of the imagination was the Polish Blue Police the main force in the roundups of Jews for their deaths: "On about 5 August [1942] all `workshop territories' were hermetically closed and the Germans and Ukrainians started a ruthless expulsion of anyone found outside these areas--always with the efficient help of the Jewish militia. Wherever a German or a Ukrainian did not venture the militia men would gladly fish out as many as possible of those still hidden in cellars and vaults, only to oblige the Germans." (p. 52).
Most Polish blackmailers (szmalcowniki), "the scum of mankind" (p. 119), took only part of the belongings of their Jewish victims and didn't usually actually denounce Jews to the Germans (pp. 119-120). They sometimes excused their conduct by their poverty and even gave the Jews advice on how better to disguise their Jewishness (p. 140).
Underworld Poles weren't the only ones that fugitive Jews feared: "The Jewish Gestapo men who remained alive were very dangerous. Their eyes were penetrating and Jews pointed out by them were lost beyond hope." (p. 165). Cyprys personally observed them shouting Jewish slogans or singing Jewish songs in order to provoke a telltale reaction in fugitive Jews among the pedestrians (pp. 165-166).
Cyprys alludes to Zegota as follows: "It goes without saying that only a fraction of the Jews in hiding knew about the existence of this committee. Those who were in touch with the patriotic `Polish intelligentsia' or people who worked in the Underground were most likely to benefit. Everything was obviously carried out in the greatest secrecy, using all available means of security." (p. 150). Complaints about Zegota aiding only a modest number of Jews are clearly off the mark.
In fact, Cyprys has a very sage understanding of ALL underground activities: "In reality underground activities were extremely stressful and required a great deal of steadiness and concentration. And because it had gone on for so many years, it was exhausting even to the strongest individuals and led to many casualties." (p. 184).
Cyprys provides a level of detail about the Warsaw Uprising usually done by Polish authors. We read, for instance, about the devastating effects of the German nebelwerfer ("roaring cow" or "cupboard"), and the systematic destruction of Warsaw by Germans AFTER the Uprising.
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