My Journey As I Remember
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A writer and a poet by heart Swarupa enjoys anchoring her thoughts through her ink. Traveling is her passion and if she had her way she would always be on the move exploring the world.
She also enjoy music, making her realize there is so much to do and so little time. Writing is her second nature. She completely loves the process of reaching within herself and expressing her thoughts. She writes b A writer and a poet by heart Swarupa enjoys anchoring her thoughts through her ink. She writes because she believes she has discovered the true purpose of her life. In the end, character and good or bad fortune combine in various ways to create the obstacles one must overcome to achieve one's destiny.
One cannot choose one's fortune, but one can choose one's character, and achieve it with the help and guidance of parents and community. That is an important lesson for anyone to learn. One person found this helpful.
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The book that started it all. And it's a perfect start. But their first year is not full of happiness, and instead filled with hardships. People die along the way and in the new world, the pilgrims worry about indians, and some don't even want to stay in the new world. That's not to say there is no happiness. Mem is highly curious and interested in the Indians, she's curious about the world around her and the new world.
She is very brave and deals with a lot in her first year in the new world yet she goes on and doesn't let it stop her. A very good book.
Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. It gave a clear explanation about the time back then, and it actually encouraged my daughter to read more of the series. It is the diary of a year old girl on a pilgrim ship and what is like. Her favorite part was when they were able to come off the ship because the women and children had to stay on the ship for 3 weeks while the men explored the land!
Bought this to read aloud to my class and they love it!
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They looked forward to the read everyday as we followed Patience to the New World. A few of my students found other books from the series in the library and checked them out. LOVE when that happens. My nine year old daughter and I read this book together and I cannot say enough about how much she enjoyed it! She looked forward to our read-alouds each day and giggled through some of the book's journal entries. She liked it so much she started her own journal and applied the Old English style to her own writing! We have been studying the Pilgrims in our Thanksgiving Unit Study and even though Remember Patience Whipple is a fictional character, the author describes events and timelines with historical accuracy mostly.
The vivid detail is so convincing, you feel like you're taking the voyage right along with the Pilgrims! The "Dear America" series is eagerly read by my tween students, and still enjoyed by their older siblings and parents. They put a personal touch to history and spark interest in the events being covered. This book gives real insight into the privations endured by the early pilgrims and makes us appreciate all themore their fierce determination. Emerging teens need more heroes likes these people. Great series of books! Our son reads this with our granddaughter because they enjoy the time together sometimes she does the reading.
Smalls story must be read and understood to prevent another holocaust from happening. This must never happen again. Amazing and touching story This book shows us the amazing rich life torn apart by evil, driven by determination and rescued by bravery to pursue a new life. The horrors of the Holocaust will renew ones commitment to fight bigotry.
Moving, personal story Everyone should read this book. We need to remember. We need to never let something like this ever happen again. Current political trends are scary Hard to put into words A truly heartbreaking and incredible story of survival. From happiness to tears and back this story reminds us to never forget. This book gives a slightly different experience where it takes you through his life.
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A very spiritual nugget at the end of the book. Moving account of life before the Holocaust. So moving and putting people, faces, names, feelings to the people who suffered. However, it started off a little too slow for my taste. I feel we could have left out 1 or 2 chapters in the beginning. I felt like it was starting to drag. Please don't get me wrong when I say this and feel that his family is unimportant, not so.
I just don't think every single minute detail needed to be there.
Anyway, I really felt that the book was expertly written. Well documented, it gave me an insight to Mauthausen Concentration Camp that I didn't even know existed. Read the book, starts off a little slow but it's worth it in the end.. Martin Small had an amazing life. It was alternately amazingly joyful and amazingly atrocious. Small went through things the normal mind can't begin to concieve. One of the things I liked most about this book is that it doesn't proclaim to make you understand, it's showing you that you can never understand.
This book has reinforced my desire to read and learn all I can about this awful period in history. I only wish I had the chance to hear a survivor speak. Soon that chance will be gone. Mo Martin Small had an amazing life. Most of the books I've read by survivors of the Holocaust have detailed the awful atrocities that they lived through. While Small includes a great many experiences of his own how could he not? As he says, there are enough books telling what actually happened in the camps, he could add no more to that part of it.
Small chose to target and enlarge everything else.
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Family relationships, neighbors, places he's lived and loved, his religon, Israel, his dreams and childhood, etc. Interspersed throughout the book are parts that are so difficult to read. I force myself through because these people lived through this. The very least I can do is read their experiences and share what burden I can. There are so many "strange" happenings in Small's life. From escaping the camp with a Jewish doctor and having the doctor do what he can to help with a gunshot wound to his arm and meeting him again later in a DP camp in Italy to becoming friends with the U.
One of his comments that will stay with me that I absolutely adore: The world would be a better place if more people took that to heart. I recommend to anyone and everyone who reads Holocaust literature. Smalls talked about not forgetting the past. How he had to deal with the horror to keep the joyful memories. Reading through the horror is the least the next generations can do and while doing that we also get the joy. Very moving I have read a lot of books about the Holocaust and the cruelty of man never ceases to amaze me. Most of the books I have read end with the liberation of the concentration camps.
I hadn't realized that after they were liberated, these people still had nowhere to go. They couldn't go home. Life would never go back to how it was before. Feb 02, Caroline Hayes rated it really liked it. This book represented a different point of view of the Holocaust. It represented a male voice, which I have not had the chance to hear before. It also offered a lot more insight into the Jewish reclaiming of Palestine after the war due to the author's involvement. And, though I did enjoy it greatly, there is something about the voice of women of the Holocaust that endears my heart more.
I think that perhaps it has to do with the sheer expression of feeling that you get from hearing a woman descr This book represented a different point of view of the Holocaust.
Remember Us: My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust by Martin Small
I think that perhaps it has to do with the sheer expression of feeling that you get from hearing a woman describe the details of her life during that period. I have seen many reviews in which the writer is blamed for the lack of "something" in this book, however, I believe that the author clearly gave the audience what he wanted us to see. Sometimes, I wonder if male Holocaust survivors do not repress their memories and feelings about that period and their experience out of a sense of that male pride, and the sense of impotence that they most of felt in those concentration camps.
Whereas women are more inclined to truly define the experience with every bit of the fear, anger, frustration, hopelessness, and helplessness they felt all the while as they watched their families be taken away forever, and their own fellow prisoners die one by one in the most horrid of manners. This book was filled with descriptions of Jewish tradition and belief in the form of anecdotes, and a would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about Holocaust experiences. Loved It This was the best holocaust story ever.
Not morbid as most, and really well written. I'd like to meet this man. This is an amazing story - a must read! This book, like all holocaust survivor memoirs, is a testament to the power of religion and the strength of the human spirit. The difference about this book is that I got a great understanding of the importance of family, friends and neighbors to the Jewish religion and life in the shtetl.
We got to hear about Small's childhood in the 20s and 30s growing up in a rural Polish town full of love and family. We also got to hear about his wonderful life after the This is an amazing story - a must read! We also got to hear about his wonderful life after the horrors of the war - his exciting European, Israeli and American adventures - what a life! I was sad to hear that he died at age 91 of pancreatic cancer, but his was a life well-served. I listened to the audio-book. The co-author read it Vic Shayne and at first his voice and narration bothered me, but then it dawned on me that Shayne knew Small and had worked with him for years on the book.
He had an understanding of the enthusiasm Small had for his story, and I realized that he placed emphasis on what was important and brought joy where it existed. Certainly, I would have loved to hear Small narrate the book, but alas, this was not possible. This is just another example of why I am disheartened by all of the fictional stories about holocaust survivors - no need for them, because there are already so many amazing true stories out there! Jul 15, Lj rated it really liked it.
This was a very informative and moving account of one Jewish man's life before, during and after the holocaust. The story begins describing life in Poland, traditions and observances of daily life. I very much enjoyed the description of weekly Sabbath observance and the deep lessons of faith and life the author learned from his father and grandfather - very moving. He describes the horrors of the holocaust with out need for graphics which brought tears to my eyes. The book also caused self refecti This was a very informative and moving account of one Jewish man's life before, during and after the holocaust.
The book also caused self refection on life, family, faith, friendship and community. I listened to this book but was very glad that I also had the kindle as there were passages that I went back to and highlighted for future reference. The reader took a chapter or two to get use to, but his voice fit the story perfectly.
The only reason I gave this book a 4 star instead of a 5 star rating is because it does move slowly at times, however it is the pace of a life and once I got use to that I was totally engaged and constantly listening to hear what would happen next.