Once The Acacias Bloomed
by Fred Spiegel
15.95, Cover: paperback, ISBN: 0-9674074-6-X, ©2004

Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Author's Preface
Editor's Preface

Part I: Germany, 1932-1938
Chapter 1    Dinslaken--The Park
Chapter 2    Dinslaken--Kristallnacht

Part II: Netherlands, 1938-1943
Chapter 3     Gennep--Uncle Adolf  
Chapter 4     Gennep--September 1, 1939
Chapter 5     Gennep--The German Invasion
Chapter 6     Gennep--The Soldier's Song  
Chapter 7     Dinxperlo--Uncle Max and Aunt Paula's
Chapter 8     Enschede--The Family Weijel
Chapter 9     Dinxperlo--Letters from My Mother
Chapter 10   Doetinchem--The Jewish School
Chapter 11   Dinxperlo--The Prins Family
Chapter 12   Dinxperlo--Allied Air Raids
Chapter 13   Dinxperlo--Yom Kippur Eve, 1942

Part III: The Camps, 1943-1945
Chapter 14   Vught--A Day in Camp
Chapter 15   Westerbork--Transit Camp
Chapter 16   Westerbork--The Missed Transport
Chapter 17   Westerbork--Kommandant Gemmeker
Chapter 18   Westerbork--The Orphanage
Chapter 19   Bergen-Belsen--Exchange Camp
Chapter 20   Bergen-Belsen--Transport 222
Chapter 21   Bergen-Belsen--Kapos
Chapter 22   Bergen-Belsen--Is there a God?
Chapter 23   Bergen-Belsen--The Guard

Part IV: Liberation, April 1945-November 1945
Chapter 24   The American Soldier   105
Chapter 25   Maastricht and Princess Juliana
Chapter 26   Utrecht  

Part V: After the Shoah, 1945-1998
Chapter 27   England
Chapter 28   The Wandering Jew
Chapter 29   City of Death
Photos

Part VI: Commemoration and Reflection, 1998-2003
Chapter 30   Commemorating Westerbork
Chapter 31   Vught Revisited 2003
Chapter 32   Return to Dinslaken
Chapter 33   Dinslaken Comes to the United States
Chapter 34   Reflection: September 11, 2001
Chapter 35   Reflection: Postscript

Afterword--Overcoming the Childhood that was Lost
Endnotes
About the Author
Chronology of Events