Belarus - History, European Jews - Biography
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Overview
A Little House on Carmel Mount is a memoir written from the perspective of a Jewish boy between the ages of seven and seventeen. Alex was born in 1930 into a family of prosperous secular Jews, and raised with stern love by his nanny, a German Lutheran. In 1939 Poland was partitioned and Grodno became part of the Soviet Union. Soviet rule was quickly succeeded by German invasion and the brutal repression of the Jewish population. Although Alex was wounded during the invasion, his father, Dr. Chaim Blumstein, refused to believe that organised genocide by one of Europe's most cultured nations was possible. However, after his arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo, Dr. Blumstein was forced to concede the impossible, and arranged for his family to escape from the ghetto to the house of a country doctor, who - although a fervent Catholic - agreed to help the Blumsteins.Book Details
Published
December 1, 2002
Publisher
Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
Pages
422
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780853034230