Our Tomorrows Never Came

by Etunia Bauer Katz

Many people think of the death camps when they think of the Holocaust. However, for many thousands of Jews, the Holocaust was in their towns and in the fields, the hills, and on the riverbanks.

Clearly, this volume addresses this latter situation in some capacity.

Genres: History

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[John Peel · Rating 4 out of 5]

You certainly couldn't call this book "enjoyable" - but it's an important story to be told. Most people think of the death camps when they think of the Holocaust, forgetting that for many Jews death didn't come from the camps - it came in the towns where they and their family had lived. And it often came at the hands of people they thought of as friends, who turned on them the first chance they got. These people robbed, betrayed and helped kill their Jewish neighbors. Etunia's family was forced to flee their home in the Ukraine, to hide in fields and forests, to survive. They were starved, chased, betrayed, and ultimately almost all were slaughtered. This is a harrowing tale, and one that should be read and remembered.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very touching telling of the author’s experiences in hiding , in a life and death struggle, at first with her family, and then alone, in German occupied Poland, during the years of the Holocaust.

P. XXI. So began our annihilation. With brutal passion, Hitler hunted down millions of Jews and humiliated, degraded, and murdered us. The graves of millions of Jews are spread across Europe- most of the massacres having been committed in Poland, especially the eastern region, the Ukraine and Russia, all the way to Babi-Yar.

P. 33 Jews started to become the targets for a k8nd of free for all behavior. Beat a Jew, rob a Jew, make sport of a Jew, kill a Jew; it didn’t matter. Savagery reigned. (Feels like this today as well.)

[Jenny Wikoff · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read that cannot be ignored. This story must be told.