International Holocaust Remembrance Day, officially January 27th, is a time to remember and celebrate the lives of those lost to the Holocaust. For THIS WEEK ONLY we are offering Eric Lamet’s tale of family exile, as told in A CHILD AL CONFINO: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini’s Italy, for FREE as an eBook, 1/22-1/28.
Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna – and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland – and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.
Having now lived in the United States since 1950, author Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait: a unique recount of a young boy’s experiences during the Holocaust, and one the reader will not soon forget. To view and download the full eBook, please visit:
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More About the Book:
“Survivors’ testimonies, such as this, are essential in the understanding of what we so poorly call the Holocaust.” – Elie Wiesel
In a feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother’s valiant efforts to make a home for him.
A story about family, either by blood or by circumstance; a mother’s bravery and wit; and a young man’s naïveté – Eric’s ability to recognize the unpredictable positives during the hardships of war afforded him the vivid experiences, memorable relationships and lessons about life that make this book stand apart.
Eric Lamet was born Erich Lifschutz on May 27, 1930, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family. Both his parents, born in Poland, moved to Vienna before the first Great War.
On March 18, 1938, five days after the Anschluss, when German troops had marched into Vienna, Lamet’s family fled to Italy, where he spent most of the next twelve years. After World War II ended, Lamet settled in Naples with his family. He finished high school in that city and studied Engineering at the University of Naples.
In 1950 the family moved to the United States, where Lamet continued his engineering studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, near his family’s home. Deciding that business would be more in keeping with his personality, he embarked on a business career. Over the years he became involved in a variety of enterprises until his eventual retirement as a CEO in 1992.
Fluent in German, Italian, English, Spanish, and Yiddish, Lamet served as an interpreter for the U.S. State Department and taught Italian for several years. Lamet has three children, two stepchildren, and seven granddaughters. They were the reason this book was written. He lives with his wife in Tamarac, Florida.
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