Endure, Defy and Remember: Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor

Endure, Defy and Remember is an intimate account of Joachim Nachbar’s unusual Holocaust survival story: In the first part of the book, the author meticulously chronicles how, step by step, the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators closed in on him, his family and the 25,000 other Jews in Stanisɫawów ghetto. The second part of the book details the perils he confronted, as a circumcised Jew, while attempting to “pass” as a Polish Catholic in occupied Lwów. Nachbar recounts his terrifying encounters with Ukrainian militiamen combing the Polish streets, movie theaters, train stations, rooming houses, municipal offices, etc. for Jews hiding-in-plain-sight. At the same time, the author describes his first-hand experiences of the pressures to which the Germans subjected the Poles and his observations of how the Poles viewed the ongoing annihilation of their Jewish neighbors. The book includes copies of almost all of the false identity and employment documents that the author forged or otherwise acquired in order to stay one step ahead of the hunters. In the final segment of the book, Joachim Nachbar offers his insights into why so few Jews survived the War Against the Jews.Read more