{"product_id":"from-broken-glass-finding-hope-in-hitlers-death-camps-to-inspire-a-new-generation-9780316513098","title":"From Broken Glass: Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a \"devastating...inspirational\" memoir \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(\u003cem\u003eThe Today Show\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003c\/strong\u003eabout finding strength in the face of despair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoss was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoss learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, \u003cem\u003eFrom Broken Glass\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316513098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Ross\u003c\/b\u003e, born Smulek Rozental, is the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps -- including Dachau, where he was tasked with transporting corpses to the crematorium. He was a licensed psychologist for the City of Boston for nearly forty years, and he conceived of and founded the New England Holocaust Memorial, which was erected in 1995 and remains one of Boston's most visited landmarks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlenn Frank\u003c\/b\u003e is a Boston-based real-estate attorney and the author of \u003ci\u003eAbe Gilman's Ending\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e served as a Massachusetts state representative from 2003 to 2011. He grew up in South Boston and as a child met Steve Ross when Ross was assigned to his school as a youth worker. He credits Ross with inspiring him to stay in school and pursue his dream of becoming a politician.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45069857947763,"sku":"9780316513098","price":19.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e2b5eb92-bbba-4ab0-b786-e3802e92206e.jpg?v=1780605169","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/from-broken-glass-finding-hope-in-hitlers-death-camps-to-inspire-a-new-generation-9780316513098","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}