Holocaust Memoirs and Genealogy We Fought Like Lions

[gary.lelonek@med.einstein.yu.edu gary.lelonek@med.einstein.yu.edu]

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Dear Genners,

I have published my grandfather's Holocaust memoirs. The book, "We Fought Like
Lions" is now available through Amazon,
https://www.amazon.com/We-Fought-Like-Lions-Holocaust/dp/1515181596

I have researched my grandfather's story for the last 6 years. I want to thank the
JewishGen community for their support. As a medical student with little budget for
my favorite hobby, the research would not have been possible without the access to
records, the research community and volunteers that JewishGen and JRI Poland offer.
In the book I describe the process of discovering his history through being the
family genealogist.

The book is the researched transcript of my grandfather's World War 2 account. He
describes prewar Sierpc, Poland, the Nazi invasion, experiences in Siberia,
fighting for the exiled Polish Government in the Warsaw Uprising 1944, capture by
the Nazis and life as a POW, liberation, anti-Semitism when he returned to Sierpc
post-war, Lampertheim DP camp, establishment of the State of Israel and immigration
to America. My grandfather saved his entire family by convincing his parents to
flee to the Soviet Union. I discuss the tools JewishGen and JRI Poland provide. I
cite 33 letters that the family wrote to the Sierpc Relief Organization, Roots
works, reparation requests, and interviews. I have also included historical
perspectives to place his narrative in the larger context of World War 2. With
over 86,000 oral testimonies, the Holocaust is the best-documented event in Jewish
history and includes an account of the pre-Holocaust Jewish life. My book makes my
grandfather's recorded history accessible to anyone.

Thank you,
Gary Lelone

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I want to also acknowledge the vital role and service Viewmate played in my
research. Throughout the years I have had documents in Polish, Russian, German
and Yiddish translated by Viewmate volunteers. Many of the Lelonek family letters
from the DP camps were translated by Viewmate volunteers including Moses Milstein,
Ite Dambroski, Luke Talikowski, Ella Barkan, Andreas J. Schwab, Beate Schuetzmann,
Yael Chaver, Ann Linder, and Esther Snyder.

Thank you,
Gary Lelonek

LELONEK, APPELBAUM, PILNIKIEWCZ, RAKOW, LACINSKI and KADECKI from Sierpc and
Biezun, Poland

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