Cover of Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?

Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?

In a memorable scene in Schindler's List, viewers the world over witnessed the miracle of two Jews being wed clandestinely in the Plaszow concentration camp.Those two were Joseph and Rebecca Bau.In this memoir, filled with his stories and drawings, Joseph Bau tells of their love, finding beauty and wonder in a time of horror. Whether recounting the bombing of Krakow, is brother's daring exploits in the ghetto, the brutality of the camp, or the harsh last days at Schindler's factory, Bau balances the grimness of events with the humor, resiliency, and love that helped him transcend the unspeakable.

Subject
biographyhistory
Setting
holocaust
Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism Shares holocaust, memoir, biography
  2. Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust Shares holocaust, memoir, biography
  3. We Never Lost Hope: A Holocaust Memoir and Love Story Shares holocaust, memoir, biography
  4. Stolen Years Shares holocaust, memoir, biography

“If you want more of the same (biography), start with these.”

  1. Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust
  2. Single Handed: A Heroic Story of Surviving the Holocaust, the Korean War, and Earning the Medal of Honor
  3. My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank
  4. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade

“If it was the holocaust that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Survivor Of The Holocaust
  2. Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945
  3. Alicia
  4. Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Thanks to My Mother
  2. The Boy on the Wooden Box
  3. Haunted Memories: Portraits of Women in the Holocaust
  4. Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust