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Rescued from the Ashes

The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto

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Rescued from the Ashes

By: Leokadia Schmidt, Oscar E. Swan - translator
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
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The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed.

Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small family and their daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto. Her memoir brings to life the vilest and most righteous qualities that people are capable of as she depicts the horrific living conditions in the ghetto and her family's harrowing escapes from the Nazi furnaces.

©2018 Heirs of Leokadia Schmidt (P)2022 Tantor 20th Century Military Modern War Survival Holocaust

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...the life stories that come from this horrific place in time always overwhelm me. My family immigrated in the 1st quarter of the 20th century to America and I know many other family members were murdered into the holocaust. The journeys in the camps are painful in a different way but trying to picture all this couple went thru for so long yet to come together, survive and then thrive....I could never have risen to the level of bravery and courage.
What a mind-blowing life story........

...you wish it was fiction...

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