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Lillians Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza is a powerful narrative that is written with boundless humanity and dignity. Her lifes journey is that of discovery, in which morality and human rights played a central role in her thinking, but more importantly in her actions. Survival and Conscience is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit over the confines of the narrow definitions of group identity and politics, where collective traumas are manipulated to exploit and subjugate others. Lillians book is penned with the poise of an intellectual, but with the heart of a poetunpretentious, refined, and profound. I strongly recommend this book.

DR. RAMZY BAROUD,
Editor of Palestine Chronicle and
author, My Father Was A Freedom Fighter

I truly admire Lillian Rosengarten for her activism, steadfastness and especially for writing this very important and touching book. I got to know Lillian as an extraordinary and very educated person, deeply influenced by her own and her familys awful experiences in Nazi Germany. Facing the challenges of fleeing Nazi Germany as a young girl made her understand that all forms of extreme nationalism and racism are dangerous and must be combated. Because this attitude is reflected in every line of her book, it is a must-read for everyone concerned with the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!

ANNETTE GROTH,
Left Party Member of the Bundestag from Baden-Wrttemberg

A committed human rights activist, poet, writer, psychoanalyst, world traveler, Jew, and pacifist, Lillian writes with passion and detailed honesty. Her memoir is a cry from the heart, a call for the centrality of human rights for all. Her experience with near annihilation as a child, her personal struggles with grief and guilt, and her life long search for justice and spiritual peace is both moving and inspiring. Her willingness to bear witness to the squalid hell in Gaza and to get on that boat is a rousing shout to action. Lillian is unafraid to state that for her, the Palestinians are the final victims of the Nazi Holocaust; holding Israel accountable is both an act of desperation and love.

ALICE ROTHCHILD
Author, On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the
Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion

Lillian Rosengarten has done something incredible in Survival and Conscience . By ruthlessly examining her familys exodus from Germany during the Holocaust, she comes to understand the ways that Nazi persecution helped produce mental illness inside her family. But then she breaks down the personal wall of that experience, and by venturing on the Jewish Boat to Gaza, explains its connection to Israels persecution of the Palestinians. She has produced a brave and wrenching account that is also deeply necessary, as Americans seek to understand how we joined our countrys interests with Israels.

PHILIP WEISS
Founder and managing editor, Mondoweiss

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Front cover image courtesy of Lillian Rosengarten

Cover design and typesetting by Diana Ghazzawi for Just World Publishing, LLC. Photos in Chapter 8 by Vish Vishvanath.

Publishers Cataloging in Publication

(Provided by Quality Books, Inc.)

Rosengarten, Lillian, author.

Survival and conscience: from the shadows of Nazi

Germany to the Jewish boat to Gaza/Lillian

Rosengarten.

pages cm

LCCN 2015947660

ISBN 978-1-935982-60-9

ISBN 978-1-935982-63-0

1. Rosengarten, Lillian. 2. Holocaust survivors-
United States--Biography. 3. Human rights workers-
United States--Biography. 4. Human rights advocacy.
5. Arab-Israel conflict--1993- 6. Autobiographies.
I. Title.

DS134.42.R668A3 2015 940.5318092

QBI15-600170

For Lydia, Daniel, Melina, Emilia, and the memory of Philip
and to the courageous activists on
the Jewish Boat to Gaza, Irene , September 2010,
Edith, Eli, Itamar, Glyn, Rami, Reuven, Vish, Yonatan
Love,
Lillian

Wild Mothers Lament for Dead Children

Lillian Rosengarten

What is this strange world where children die?

Question the killers, suffering everywhere.

Callous indifference deadened in pursuit of blood.

Little screams on still faces. I cannot hear you! Speak.

Thousands of children, stench of burnt flesh, life without value.

Missiles slam smoldering in the moonlight.

I am your murderer nailed in a coffin of hate.

I am your mother stooped in grief. I am your fathers vacant eyes.

I am the children.

Remember the spring of our years before a troubled twilight

Crushed you in a sea of tears?

Once I held you in my arms to suckle you with tenderness.

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