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LOVE…LIFE…AND THE HOLOCAUST
Things were good for the happy and prospering Fischer family in Poland. Then the Germans came. First life was brutally disrupted as the Jews were herded out of their homes and into the ghettos, four families to a single-family flat.
Then came the camps where some went to work and some went to die.
We have all heard this story countless times, but Mayer Fischer, through his son, Barry, tells it so it penetrates our mind and, more importantly, our heart. We see it and we feel it. And if we weren’t there, we now understand why this must not be forgotten.
This is a living history of sorrow, survival, resourcefulness, and, ultimately, triumph over Hitler’s madness. And it is a story of love.
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Some survivors never talk about the holocaust.
Fortunately, Mayer Fischer did.
After nearly 70 years of hearing the stories of the holocaust, maybe we’ve become a little numb to what happened. Barry Fischer, by making sure his father’s words were put into print, has changed that. While every holocaust survivor’s story is important, the way Barry and Mayer tell it is powerfully moving. It brings to vivid reality what life was like in Poland, the ghetto and the camps. It drives home how families were brutally, and abruptly, torn asunder. How husbands and sons were separated from wives and daughters, many never to see each other again. How work was impossible on the meager rations people were fed, but still somehow was accomplished. How life and death were in-your-face facts of every day existence.
Yet this story is told from the perspective of survivor, not victim. It is heart rending instead of gut wrenching. It inspires rather than causes us to turn our heads and look away. And it proves that true and lasting love could be found despite the unimaginable losses.
Author Barry Fischer grew up in a deeply loving and devoted family. While his mother, Blima, chose, as many survivors did, to put the past behind her, his father, Mayer, took another path. He made telling the tales of his holocaust experience a part of a caring family environment.
We all are enriched because he did.
Barry lives, works and writes in Beverly Hills, California.
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Barry Fischer is a man of many accomplishments. He is a retired family law specialist for 34 years, a loving father, and the devoted son of two holocaust survivors, Mayer and Blima Fischer.
From his father he learned of the harsh realities of life in Poland for Jews during World War II. His own travels to the places where his father lived and endured Nazi atrocities broadened his knowledge and deepened his visceral understanding of life in the ghetto and work camps.
Barry lives, works, and writes in Beverly Hills, California.
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