Shoes of the Shoah, Dorothy Pierce
Shoes of the Shoah, Dorothy Pierce
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Shoes of the Shoah
The Tomorrow of Yesterday

Author: Dorothy Pierce

Narrator: Emily Lawrence, Josh Bloomberg

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/14/2020

Synopsis

Henny had just graduated from high school when the Germans invaded Lithuania. Her care-free life rapidly changed from a life of privilege to a living hell. Simply because she was Jewish.The horrors inflicted upon the Jews of Kovno, taken place in the old forts built during Czarist Russia, are not as well known as what happened in the German Nazi camps during World War II.Henny recounts her beautiful life in Kovno before the invasion by the Nazis when she and 35,000 other Jews were put in the ghetto. We hear about the acts of cruelty done to her family and friends. How can one describe seeing friends and relatives ripped from their lives and being cruelly and viciously murdered?Travel with her to the filth and stench of the Kovno ghetto and the Stutthof concentration camp, and walk with her on her death march. Hear about the shoes that miraculously saved her.Henny’s story is one of courage, hope and the will to live. It is the heart-breaking story of surviving the most horrible experiences imaginable. Hopefully, her story will inspire those in dire conditions and remind us of what we as humans are capable of doing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deborah on November 22, 2021

Sometimes a book comes along that leaves me speechless. This is one of those books. I have been reading books about the Holocaust since high school thinking one day I might be able to understand how and why this could happen. Now I know. Some people are evil in every aspect of the word. Completely e......more

Goodreads review by sj.rothwell on July 07, 2021

Stories of the holocaust are always different, yet all have a directness to them. Henny's story is much the same as others I have read, direct and to the point in describing what happened to her. Henny's grace and strength shine through how she tells her story, in how she chose to carry on in imposs......more

Goodreads review by Bekka on January 26, 2022

I read this in one shot, like ripping off a band aid: I knew that it was going to hurt. It is my firm belief that everyone should read at least one book written by a survivor. Shoes of the Shoah was written by the friend of the survivor after she related her story through extensive videotape intervi......more

Goodreads review by Jilly on June 13, 2022

It is my firm belief that everyone should read at least one book written by a survivor. It should be complusory in schools. Shoes of the Shoah is the true story of Henny, a Holocaust Survivor, in Lithuania. Written by her friend Dorothy after Henny related her story through extensive videotape inte......more

Goodreads review by Jack Schneider on December 10, 2023

Excellent book and highly recommend reading this book!! Learning more about the Kovno, The Kovno Ghetto and Sttuthof was eye opening as my father, Naftali was born and raised in Kovno and worked in the airport building the runways during his internment in Kovno Ghetto. He then learned to fix sewing......more

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