The Sharp Elbows of Klara Weisz: A Holocaust Survivor's Testimony of Tragedy and Triumph, (Hardcover)

<p><strong>The Sharp Elbows of Klara Weisz</strong></p><p>Holocaust Survivor Testimony - Budapest Ghetto - 1944-1945</p><p></p><p>One frozen morning in November 1944, Klara Weisz was torn from her toddler son and marched toward the icy Danube by Hungarian Arrow-Cross fascists. A pistol kissed the back of her head-yet in the split-second before the trigger cracked, Klara's elbow flashed, her body lurched, and the river swallowed her instead of a bullet.</p><p>This is the electrifying, first-person account of what happened next.</p><p>Across four brittle pages of hand-typed testimony-rescued from a crumbling family archive-Klara narrates the next eight weeks of her life: </p><ul><li><ul><li>The brick-factory camp, the death march, the synagogue turned shelter.</li><li>A midnight plunge beneath broken ice while machine-gun fire razored the water around her.</li><li>The barbed-wire crawl that severed the nerves in her hands but left her grip on life intact.</li><li>The compassionate strangers, ghetto policemen, and secret food baskets that kept her infant son alive until liberation.</li></ul></li></ul><p>Told in unadorned, urgent prose, The Sharpened Elbow of Klara Weisz is both a thriller of escape and a mother's love letter to the helpers who materialized in shadows. Historian-approved footnotes contextualize every street and statute; original scans of the typoscope manuscript sit opposite the clear-text transcription, inviting readers to witness history in its raw, near-illegible state.</p><p>Perfect for: </p><ul><li><ul><li>Secondary-school classrooms seeking primary-source Holocaust materials</li><li>Memoir readers who treasure The Diary of Anne Frank, Night, or The Choice</li><li>Genealogists tracing Hungarian-Jewish survival stories</li><li>Anyone who needs reminding that one sharp moment of courage can redraw the line between life and death.</li></ul></li></ul><p>Turn the page. Feel the cold metal. Hear the river crack. And discover why Klara's elbow is still remembered in the family as the sharpest weapon ever raised against tyranny.</p><p></p>

• The Sharp Elbows of Klara Weisz: A Holocaust Survivor's Testimony of Tragedy and Triumph, (Hardcover)
• Author: Palm Beach Book Publisher
• ISBN: 9798869071163
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2025-12-29
• Page Count: 66