The Thirty-six
Author(s): Siegmund Siegreich
According to the Kabbalah, in each generation there are thirty-six righteous people who sustain the world and preserve humanity. These people are often unknown and obscure but they bear all the sorrows and sins of the world. They also appear and help ordinary people in times of extreme need. Their deeds are often unrecognised and unexplained. It has taken more than six decades for Sigi Siegreich to be able to talk to his children and grandchildren about his life in wartime Poland - the life of a privileged young Jewish boy who spoke six languages and had never even cleaned his own shoes. The invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 changed his world forever. The Thirty-six tells of Sigi's miraculous survival and the good and bad he saw of life and humanity in Poland during WWII.
General Information
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- : Random House Australia
- : Vintage (Australia)
- : 0.507
- : 01 September 2009
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : Australia
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Siegmund Siegreich
- : Paperback
- : 9-Sep
- : 940.53
- : 352
- : Biography & autobiography; The Holocaust; Jewish studies
- : illustrations
- : illustrations
More About The Product
Sigi Siegreich and his family were expelled from their home when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. By the end of 1942, his parents and 167 members of his extended family had been exterminated in the death camps of Treblinka, Belzec and Auschwitz. Fifteen-year-old Sigi was first enslaved in the labour camp at Skarzysko-Kamienna and later at Czestochowa, where he met Hanka, a young girl and fellow prisoner who would eventually save his life. After the war ended, Sigi and Hanka married and began to rebuild their lives. Their daughter Evelyne was the first Jewish child born to Holocaust survivors in Katowice, Sigi's home town. Thanks to a chance meeting with a childhood friend in Munich, Sigi and his family eventually ended up in Melbourne, Australia, where he established a successful import business. Now retired, Sigi is blessed with Hanka, his loving wife for the past sixty-four years, two gorgeous daughters, two sons-in-law, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He recently celebrated his 85th birthday.