Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358) and index.
Contents:
Their final road -- Home -- Zivia and Yitzhak's kibbutz -- The ghetto fighters -- Beit Ha'am -- Daily life -- Between deaths.
Summary:
880-04 "We have no interest in mythology. We had an interest in living, hesitating, brooding people. That's what made them human. Our warrior was not a bronze, hollow monument. We were people with struggles and fears and yet with a strong desire to take revenge, to fight" Yitzhak Zuckerman "If there was heroism in us, it was the heroism of holding on as a man" Tzvia Lovetkin Tzvia Lovetkin and Yitzchak (Antek) Zuckerman were the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (HIL) in Poland and senior officials The male and female fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943 and since then was synonymous with heroism during the Holocaust. They remained alive and immigrated to Israel, where they were adopted into the hearts of the United Kibbutz and the Zionist left. At the same time, everyone, regardless of party, considered them a miracle and saw including national heroes. Their testimonies were borne by the majority of the people and published in the scriptures, the stories of their heroism were recorded in the history books and their names were immortalized on the map of the country, but over time the lines of their figures became blurred. 80 years after the rebellion and more than four decades after their deaths, only the symbol remains: the name of a settlement and the names of streets, a school and a center Absorption, a memorial plaque and photos on the wall. Everything else is immortality is a double biography of a couple of ghetto fighters Zvia Lovatkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman with the end of the days of exile and rebellion and after those war years, from the end of the 1940s until their deaths. The book brings the story of their lives in Israel between Death in the ghetto and rebellion and life in the shadow of the Holocaust and in the light of heroism, between the plowing of a Hebrew furrow in abandoned land in the Western Galilee and the founding of the first Holocaust museum in the world, between the establishment of a kibbutz of survivors and a call to boycott Germany, between the shack of the parents who survived the Holocaust and the children's home of the second generation, Between a longing for the days of peace and a political career and a candidacy for the Knesset, between exciting testimonies on stage and at the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and the agonizing knowledge that those who were not there will never be able to understand"-- Back cover.
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