Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons: A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival Through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

When Sophica was six years old, she was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania to a strip of land in Eastern Ukraine called Transnistria. Death, illness, brutality, and shame became her daily life. Hungry and afraid, she held on to her sanity and hope, albeit losing her sister and her father and witnessing a vicious attack on her mother. She met Herman on her way to the Promised Land.

Herman didn't mind wearing the yellow star and staying home from school. He played outside with his friends while his father and brother were sent to a labor camp. After the war ended, he joined a Jewish youth movement and embarked on a ship to Israel. However, his journey was interrupted and he was taken to a British detention camp in Cyprus where he met Sophica. They were renamed Shulamit and Tzvi and made a home together in Israel. Shulamit/Sophica never mentioned her sad childhood. Sixty-five years after the war and her deportation, Sophica's daughter comes across a family secret and starts asking questions, inducing Shulamit to break her silence and become the frightened little Sophica once more. This book tells her moving story.

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Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons: A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival Through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

When Sophica was six years old, she was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania to a strip of land in Eastern Ukraine called Transnistria. Death, illness, brutality, and shame became her daily life. Hungry and afraid, she held on to her sanity and hope, albeit losing her sister and her father and witnessing a vicious attack on her mother. She met Herman on her way to the Promised Land.

Herman didn't mind wearing the yellow star and staying home from school. He played outside with his friends while his father and brother were sent to a labor camp. After the war ended, he joined a Jewish youth movement and embarked on a ship to Israel. However, his journey was interrupted and he was taken to a British detention camp in Cyprus where he met Sophica. They were renamed Shulamit and Tzvi and made a home together in Israel. Shulamit/Sophica never mentioned her sad childhood. Sixty-five years after the war and her deportation, Sophica's daughter comes across a family secret and starts asking questions, inducing Shulamit to break her silence and become the frightened little Sophica once more. This book tells her moving story.

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Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons: A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival Through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons: A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival Through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

by Avital E Baruch
Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons: A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival Through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons: A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival Through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

by Avital E Baruch

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When Sophica was six years old, she was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania to a strip of land in Eastern Ukraine called Transnistria. Death, illness, brutality, and shame became her daily life. Hungry and afraid, she held on to her sanity and hope, albeit losing her sister and her father and witnessing a vicious attack on her mother. She met Herman on her way to the Promised Land.

Herman didn't mind wearing the yellow star and staying home from school. He played outside with his friends while his father and brother were sent to a labor camp. After the war ended, he joined a Jewish youth movement and embarked on a ship to Israel. However, his journey was interrupted and he was taken to a British detention camp in Cyprus where he met Sophica. They were renamed Shulamit and Tzvi and made a home together in Israel. Shulamit/Sophica never mentioned her sad childhood. Sixty-five years after the war and her deportation, Sophica's daughter comes across a family secret and starts asking questions, inducing Shulamit to break her silence and become the frightened little Sophica once more. This book tells her moving story.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783838210483
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Publication date: 04/25/2017
Pages: 212
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Avital E. M. Baruch, Shulamit and Tzvi's daughter, was born in 1957 in Haifa, Israel. She embarked on this project as a literary memorial to her aunt, her grandfather, and her great-grandmother, who were denied a proper burial. She dedicated six years to the sensitive task of interviewing her mother and other members of the family and to researching the historical background of the Holocaust in Romania, especially the deportations to Transnistria. Avital now lives in London with her husband. They have four grown-up children and five grandchildren.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi

Foreword xiii

Prologue xv

Introduction xvii

Family Tree xxii

Maps xxiv

Note xxvi

Chapter 1 Spring 1935: From Mihaileni to last 1

Chapter 2 1938: Back to MamaGitte 12

Chapter 3 Summer 1941: Deportation 27

Chapter 4 Herman's Story: Siret 38

Chapter 5 Autumn 1941: Mogilev and Luchinets 54

Chapter 6 1942: Shargorod 63

Chapter 7 1943: Capusterna 73

Chapter 8 Herman's Story: Botosani 84

Chapter 9 Spring 1944: Back to no-Home 93

Chapter 10 Herman's Story: Bar Mitzvah 115

Chapter 11 1947-1949: Gura-Humorului 119

Chapter 12 Herman's Story: On the Pan York to Cyprus 129

Chapter 13 1949-1950: Bucharest 142

Chapter 14 Herman's Story: The War of Independence 147

Chapter 15 1950-1952: Newcomers to Israel 152

Chapter 16 1954: Getting Married 163

Epilogue 173

Historical Background 174

Bibliography 185

Words of Thanks 188

About the Author 190

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