A Survivor's Duty : : Surviving the Holocaust and Fighting for Israel--A Story of Father and Son / / Gabriel Laufer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Laufer, Gabriel,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

The Holocaust and the birth and growth of Israel are strikingly different Jewish historical events. Yet they are related, just like the author, Gabriel Laufer and his father. With only a few hints in hand, Laufer researched the details of his father's Holocaust survival in the Hungarian forced labor battalions near Stalingrad, as a slave building German bunkers for weapon factories, and later, his escape from Stalinist Hungary. In this book, Laufer shares the gripping stories of his father's experiences juxtaposed with his own as an Israeli Defense Force officer in the Six Days War and the three wars that followed. Laufer leads the reader through his family's personal history and its place in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transliteration and Formatting -- Foreword -- June 1942: Imprisoned in the toloncház -- July 1942: Budapest -- August 1942: Leaving Gyula -- August 1942: Püspökladány, Hungary -- September 1942: Gomel, Ukraine -- September-October 1942: When Man Becomes a Horse -- October-December 1942: Stary Oskol -- May 1967: Dark Clouds over Israel -- May-June 1967: The Six-Day War -- Summer 1967: Messianic Days (or so we thought) -- January 1943: Near Stalingrad -- 1968-1970: The War of Attrition -- October 1973: The Yom Kippur War -- November 1944-May 1945: Dachau and Mühldorf, Germany -- May 1945: Liberation -- July 1945: Home at Last -- 1945-1949: Budapest -- July-August 1949: Escape from Hungary -- June 1982: A War of Deception -- Works Cited -- Index