{"title":"Holocaust Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"living-memoryhardback","title":"Living Memory by Andor Schwartz","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey have no graves, they have no markers of ever having existed. The millions of people who were murdered by the Nazis live on only in the memories of the survivors, those that had survivors.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nIn his 79th year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished. He writes of getting: ‘a strong message . . . what you have to do is bring back your beloved ones, one by one, make them alive for a short time’.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nOver a period of 3 months, he wrote these memories in long-hand. He writes that: ‘It was a miracle. My pen was pushing ahead with full speed. I didn’t have to think, names and dates were coming back with the speed of fire. Sentence after sentence, all making sense, all of them correct. 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