Someone to Watch Over Me: A Holocaust Memoir Looking Back on a Life of Upheaval Kindness and Fortune (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798703979532)

An inspiring story of exceptional goodness in the midst of extraordinary evil. In 1942, Sylvia Karwaser was only two years old when Germany invaded Belgium and extreme danger loomed at her family's doorstep. Desperate to find a safe place for their daughter to hide, Getty & Srul Karwaser's prayers were answered when their landlady, Alida Pontus, offered to take Sylvia, a Jewish child and pass her off as her Christian granddaughter. Within a few short days, Sylvia's parents were arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo for two and a half years at Kazerne Dossin, a detention and deportation camp in Mechlen, Belgium. During this time, at tremendous personal risk to their own lives, Alida and Charles Pontus hid Sylvia and treated her with immense love and kindness. Happily, Sylvia and her parents survived the war, and after building a life rich with Jewish tradition, her family ensured that the Pontus couple were rightfully recognized as Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Sylvia Karwaser Goodman, a retired French teacher who has spoken to numerous audiences about her story of survival lives in Toronto, Canada surrounded by her children and grandchildren.

Author: Sylvia Karwaser Goodman
ISBN-10: 8703979539
ISBN-13: 9798703979532
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2021
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d