TY - BOOK AU - Masis,Julie AU - Lembersky,Felix TI - How my grandfather stole a shoe (and survived the Holocaust in Ukraine) SN - 9798887197098 AV - DS135.M64 M35 2025 KW - Masis, Shlomo, KW - Masis, Julie, KW - Masis family. KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Ukraine KW - Transnistria (Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944) KW - Biography KW - Moldova KW - Zguriţa KW - Holocaust survivors KW - Massachusetts KW - Jews KW - Social conditions KW - Obodivka Ghetto (Obodivka, Ukraine) KW - Zguriţa (Moldova) KW - Biographies N2 - "Approximately 10,000 Moldovan Jews were imprisoned in the Obodovka ghetto in Ukraine during the Second World War. This was in the part of Ukraine that was under Romanian occupation, and Jews had a better chance to survive there than in parts of Ukraine that were under German control. Romanian soldiers did not try to murder every single Jew in the camp with bullets. Still, most of the ghetto's inhabitants perished from disease and starvation during the first winter. Journalist Julie Masis, who visited her grandfather in the nursing home until he passed away at the age of 102, wrote down his memories about this little-known chapter of the Holocaust. The stories touch on how Ukrainians helped the Jews in the ghetto survive, and also include a family legend about a German medic who fell in love with the author's Jewish grandmother"-- ER -