Children of Zion
The Children of Zion (The Path of Agony of the Tehran Children) is a book written by Henryk Grynberg about “the fate of the Polish Jews”.[1][2][3]
Synopsis
The Children of Zion (January 1998) is considered as a documentary that was based on a collection of fragments of records compiled in Palestine in 1943 by the Eastern Center for Information, a Polish government group. The book was a source of the testimonies of Jewish children who were evacuated from the Soviet Union to Palestine. Grynberg arranged the “collection of interviews” to serve as a reminder about the Holocaust experience. The Polish children’s experiences during World War II also provided a recollection of their lives before the war. Memories of when the war broke out were also discussed, apart from the “arrival of the Germans and the Russians”, the children’s journeys and life while in exile, and their condition after the so-called Sikorsky Agreement allowed them to leave the work camps. Many of the children had to cope as orphaned émigrés. The original document that had become the basis for Grynberg’s Children of Zion is at the Hoover Institution of Standford University.[1][2][3]
Identities of the Children
Grynberg's Children of Zion contains the original list of the Polish children who arrived in Palestine "on February 18th, 1943, those who arrived in August 1943, and those who gave the testimonies".
Translations
Grynberg's book was originally published in Polish as Dzieci Syjonu (Warszawa: Karta) in 1994. It was later translated into Hebrew by Zeev Shos (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem) in 1995. Grynberg’s Children of Zion was translated into English by Jacqueline Mitchell, a United Nations interpreter, and published by Northwestern University Press in 1998.[1][2]
References
Specific
- ^ a b c Grynberg, Henryk. Children of Zion (Synopsis), Amazon.co.uk, retrieved on: July 28, 2007
- ^ a b c Grynberg, Henryk. Children of Zion, Google Book Search, Books.Google.com (undated), retrieved on: July 27, 2007
- ^ a b Grynberg, Henryk. Children of Zion, Close-Up, Northwestern University Press and Northwestern.edu (undated), retrieved on: July 28, 2007
General
- Holtzman, Ada. The Children of Zion:"The Tehran Children"Ada Holtzman, JewishGen, Inc. and The Yizkor Book Project, June 2004, retrieved on: July 28, 2007
- Lance Ackerfeld, Lance and Joyce Field. List of the Children (Original list of the children who arrived to Eretz Israel in the middle of World War II, after escape from occupied Poland to Russia), JewishGen, Inc., 2004, retrieved on: July 28, 2007