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title	:	Shattered Faith : A Holocaust Legacy
author	:	Wells, Leon Weliczker.
publisher	:	University Press of Kentucky
isbn10 | asin	:	0813119316
print isbn13	:	9780813119311
ebook isbn13	:	9780813171036
language	:	English
subject	Wells, Leon Weliczker,--1925- , Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Religious life.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	D804.3.W398 1995eb
ddc	:	940.53/18/092
subject	:	Wells, Leon Weliczker,--1925- , Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Religious life.

Page iii Shattered Faith A Holocaust Legacy Leon Weliczker Wells

Page iv Copyright 1995 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. Editorial and Sales Offices: Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wells, Leon Weliczker, 1925 Shattered faith : a Holocaust legacy / Leon Weliczker Wells. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8131-1931-6 (alk. paper) 1. Wells, Leon Weliczker, 1925 . 2. Holocaust, Jewish (19391945)Personal narratives. 3. Holocaust survivors Religious life. I. Title. D804.3.W398 1995 940.53'18'092dc20 [B] 95-8408 This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.

Page v The lamentation for the Jews in Europe has not subsided for fifty years. I want to dedicate this book to my immediate family who were killed during the Holocaust: My father, Abraham, who was killed at the age of forty-eight My mother, Chana, at the age of forty-six My sister Elka at the age of nineteen My brother Aaron at the age of seventeen My brother Jakob at the age of fourteen My sister Rachel at the age of twelve My sister Judith at the age of ten My sister Bina at the age of seven

Page vii Contents Foreword by Harry James Cargas ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. Life in the Shtetl 1 2. Yom Kippur in the Shtetl 43 3. Yom Kippur 1942 91 4. Yom Kippur 1943 97 5. Yom Kippur 1944 101 6. Yom Kippur 1949 109 7. Yom Kippur Many Years Later 117 8. Yom Kippur 1994 145 Epilogue 149 Glossary 151 Notes 159 Bibliography 163 Index 167

Page ix Foreword When Leon Wells was seventeen years old he was forced to disinter corpses from mass graves so they could be burned to hide from the Allies, soon to be victorious, some of the awful truth about the Nazi death camps. He had lost his parents and all six of his brothers and sisters. The prospect of his own survival must have seemed slim. Indeed, for all of the few Jews who made it through Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Sobibor and Dora and... (that abominably long list of hell holes on earth), the prospect for life in the New Europe was slight. A Jew without family, friends, a Jew hungry, unwelcome in his hometownwhy would he not feel he had been abandoned by God? The precise events of Wells's life in the concentration camps are detailed in his autobiographical work The Death Brigade. He tells there of being beaten and tortured by the invading Germans even before his incarceration. He writes of such inhumane treatment for such a prolonged period that he became not only numb to his own pain but also inured to the pain of others. His parents had taught him that every Jew was responsible for every other Jew, so, added to the torture he experienced in the camps, Wells carried a burden of guilt because he was becoming hardened to the plight of others. In The Death Brigade we read of his being forced to dig his own grave, from which he was able to escape at the last moment, then of his flirtation with suicide. He was brought to conclude from his own experiences that "the concentration camp and the Death Brigade

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