In the eye of the storm : a memoir of survival through the Holocaust

Memoirs of Uri (Izio) Lichter, born to a hasidic family in Lvov in 1919. In 1941 the family was interned in the ghetto. Lichter's elder sister was deported and killed; his younger sister was hidden with a Polish family friend, Mrs. Prachtel. In 1943 Lichter escaped from the ghetto and fled to Dnepropetrovsk. Posing as a Volksdeutscher foreman of a fictitious firm, he obtained documents for his father and two brothers. He then returned to Lvov and helped them escape; his mother, however, was deported and killed. Lichter, his father, and his brothers worked for a German railroad construction firm, first in Dnepropetrovsk and then in nearby Dolginzewo, until the liberation. In 1951 Lichter and his young wife settled in the U.S. 256 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 22 cm