Preface vii
Before the War 1
The Russians are Coming 9
The Germans are here 13
With the Russians in Brest-Litovsk 17
Life in Radzyn 23
Father and Brother in Lublin Prison 37
New Laws and New Forms of Abuse 43
My Sister Sonja is Dead 51 The Judenrat 55
The Poles, the Germans, the Jews 59
Uncle Jankiel and the Gypsy Woman 63
We make Plans 67
The Transports to Auschwitz and Treblinka 73
My Grandmother, the Bobeshi Basia-Gella 77
Yom Kippur 81 My Family, My Child 85
Alone in Radzyn 91 As Aryans in Warsaw 97
Under Way with Forged Papers 105
In the Ghetto of Miedzyrzec 113
The Ghetto is Liquidated 123 In Majdanek 129
Auschwitz 145 Leaving Auschwitz 163
Camp Dora / Nordhausen 171
Bergen-Belsen 177
Free 181
The Trip to Poland 193
Back in Germany 201
The Big Disappointment 207
Three Dates 209
In Memory of my Hevra 213
Glossary of Foreign Words 215
Pictures 219
About the Author 223
Holocaust Books by Amsterdam Publishers 225
Joseph Schupack was a Holocaust survivor (1924 - 1989) from
Radzyn-Podlaski, a small town in Poland. His entire immediate
family perished in the Second World war. In 1981 he decided to
write his memoirs, The Dead Years. His unusually detailed
recollection of names and dates makes compelling reading.
Joseph Schupack passed away at the age of 67, leaving a wife and
two sons.
"This book brings home, in awful unrelenting detail what it was
like for those who were not killed, but lived for some time in the
concentration camps. As a young man, the author was in several
camps, including Auschwitz, but eventually got out and lived to be
a father and grandfather. It makes for very difficult reading,
often because of the small details - the clothes covered in lice,
the endless hunger and efforts to overcome it and even the very
real difficulties of walking (and working) in wooden clogs in muddy
countryside. Death, of course, is absolutely everywhere - sometimes
visibly by the witnessing of hanging, lashings or stoning or, very
powerfully, within highly overcrowded trains, but more often by the
knowledge that people just disappeared. This is the kind of book
that ought to be read by people everywhere, simply to understand
what the phrase 'man's inhumanity to man' really means." —Anne
R.
"If anyone ever doubts that the holocaust happened, which remains a
mystery as how people could, then please read this book and then
deny it At times a very difficult read at the cruelty of man upon
man At times l felt as though l too was suffering on behalf of
their pain it was too words just fail me." —Andrew Fryer
"This is one amazing, sad, horrific and triumphant story ! I would
recommend this book by Joseph Schupack to all adults. I think at
times we seem to not remember so much of The Holocaust and we can
NEVER Forget! He recounts the years of slavery in several of the
Nazi concentration camps. There are many horrific events. Very much
so The Dead Years with no birds flying around and no blue sky to
look up at. Mr Schupack suffered severely with hunger, filth, the
ridicule of the Nazis and the Shupos, constantly being eaten by
lice and still, he did not succumb to the Nazi's reign of terror.
This was unimaginably difficult and one wonders how he ever
mustered the strength in such trying belittling times when being
born a Jewish person in Europe was so wrong." —Luise Ven
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