Shores Beyond Shores, Irene Butter
Shores Beyond Shores, Irene Butter
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Shores Beyond Shores
From Holocaust to Hope

Author: Irene Butter, Kris Holloway, John D. Bidwell

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/25/2018

Synopsis

As her Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene's childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene's father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler's Germany.

By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene tends her ailing parents, cares for starving kids, and even helps bring clothes to her Amsterdam neighbor Anne Frank, before her family is offered a singular chance for freedom . . . providing the Nazi doctor says they are healthy enough. After two weeks of heart-lifting miracles and heart-breaking tragedies, Irene arrives in the Algerian desert to journey into redemption and womanhood, without her parents or brother.

Irene's first person memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene's hard-earned lessons are a timeless inspiration.

About Irene Butter

Irene Butter is a well-known peace activist, Holocaust survivor, and Professor Emerita of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Irene and Anne Frank lived in the same neighborhood in Amsterdam and had an encounter in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before Anne died. Irene is a frequent and inspirational speaker about her experience during World War II, stressing the importance of "Never A Bystander" and that "One Person Can Make A Difference." Irene is a cofounder of Zeitouna, a group of Jewish and Arab women working for social justice, and she is a cofounder of the Raoul Wallenberg project at the University of Michigan, which honors the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Budapest, grants fellowships to students, and awards an annual peace medal to peace workers such as the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, Desmond Tutu, and Bryan Stevenson. She holds a PhD in economics from Duke University and is the author of Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan

My family heard Irene Butter speak at the Ann Arbor District Library, largely because I thought it was important that my children (13 and 15) hear and meet a Holocaust survivor. She was wonderful, and we each came away with a copy of her book. I’ve just finished it, and it is powerful and heartbreak......more

Goodreads review by Story Circle Book Reviews

"We are all hungry for stories of hope and triumph over tragedy," writes author Irene Hasenberg Butter in her book Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope. Despite the difficult subject matter, Irene Butter's story is, ultimately, one of hope. This book was definitely not light escapist reading......more

Goodreads review by Mary

What powerful writing! I read the book in one sitting and found myself crying with and for Butter and her family several times. What the author is doing with her experience is extraordinary. An inspirational speaker, she stresses that one person can make a difference. A well-known peace activist, Ire......more

Goodreads review by Rachael

I purchased this book because Irene butter will be speaking at my daughters school. It was a great story and a quick read. Very thoughtful and beautiful portrait of family. I read in one sitting.......more

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