W Hour

by Arthur Ney

Overview

Arthur Ney, a twelve-year-old smuggler outside the Warsaw ghetto walls when the ghetto uprising began in the spring of 1943, fled to the countryside with false papers to work on a farm. Almost a year later, he returned to Warsaw and faced the realization that his family was gone. Under the protection of the Salesian Fathers as a “Christian” boy, he struggled with loneliness, guilt, fear and indecision regarding his “dual identity.” When the Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944, then fourteen-year-old Arthur Ney joined the barricades and fought the Germans – W Hour is the code name for the Uprising.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897470848
Publisher:	Azrieli Foundation
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Series:	The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Arthur Ney was born in Warsaw on June 25, 1930. He came to Canada in 1948 and settled in Montreal, where he married and raised a family.

Table of Contents

Series Preface ix

About the Glossary xi

Introduction Kalman Weiser xiii

Maps xxv

Author's Preface xxxi

The Calm Before the Storm 1

The Beginning of the End 9

Persecution 17

Struggle for Survival 25

Brushes with Death 41

Exit 57

Franciszek's Farm 69

Return to Warsaw 89

A New Beginning 101

The Warsaw Uprising 111

Surrender and Flight 129

Occupation Again 141

Finding Family 153

The Decision 169

Glossary 179

Photographs 191

Index 199