How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe (And Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine)

How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe (And Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine)

Masis, Julie; Lembersky, Felix

Academic Studies Press

04/2025

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One hundred candles

Introduction



PART ONE: GRANDPA

How the war started

The rug that hung on the wall

Thrown out of a moving train

The Zguritsa pogrom

The fruit trees that grew along the roads

How my grandfather stole a shoe

The bird that wanted to be free

How the youngest brother died

The airport and the hospital

The selection

Villages at dusk

The frozen bodies

The Nazi who rode a motorcycle

Why did Haim come back?

The unlucky wedding

Barefoot in the snow

Grandpa wants to go outside

Two buckets of potatoes and a broken bottle

If they didn't have bread, they gave potatoes

Adam and Eve

How Grandpa saved his brother

Forced labor

How curiosity saved Grandpa

The collective farm

Not like Schindler

How I wore Grandpa's sweatpants

The partisans who dressed up as Nazis

Visitors at the nursing home

The soldiers with feathers

Never too old to dance

How Grandpa milled grain

Have a good year



PART TWO: GRANDMA

From Romania to the Soviet Union

The ticket to America

The uncle who sold bagels

Ten years for telling a joke

The truck that came too late

Expelled from Soroca

Vertujani

The frostbitten feet

The German wallet

A conversation

The stolen bread

The fake email

Retaliation

An unexpected meeting

A love story in the ghetto?

Did Grandpa know?

The Red Cross

How Tsilia met Shlomo

The couple who got married in the ghetto

How the ghetto was liberated

Romania's responsibility

How my grandparents got married

The bag that took the train

How Grandpa killed two Nazis

How the war ended

The drive home



PART THREE: GRANDDAUGHTER

How I was named

Odessa-"Keep moving, you are not a tree!"

On the road to Moldova

A visit to Zguritsa

Zguritsa before the war

The cow in the cemetery

The Roma capital of the world

Chisinau, the capital of Moldova

The trip to Obodovka

A Ukrainian classmate

The righteous among the nations

Back in Odessa

Chisinau in December

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine

The synagogue of Orhei

Jewish prayers are closer to God's ears

Crosses as Holocaust monuments

Holocaust Street

Chisinau in the summer



PART FOUR: AFTER THE WAR

The famine of 1947

How a poor man visited a rich man

Potato diplomacy

The free cookies

Without his grandparents

How the horse died

Yahrzeit

Childhood games

The Blue Suit

Showing disrespect

The horse-pulled sleigh

Antisemitism

The man who wanted to make my father blind

The only man in Zguritsa who had a car

How a tobacco factory cured Grandpa

The antenna

The most important thing in life

The matchmaker

Grandma's letters

How my father got arrested in the cinema

How my father sent butter in the mail

The hospital on the way to America

How we came to America

How Grandpa got lost

Grandpa's trip to Israel

Why Grandpa didn't learn to drive

Why Grandpa didn't remarry

Grandpa's sunglasses

The upcoming birthday

How to communicate without words

The interview

The great-grandfather who had one leg

One hundred and a half

Language

Grandpa's lost address book

Romanian citizenship

Ancestors at a dinner party



Acknowledgements
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grandfather; Ukraine, WWII, Moldova, longevity, nursing home,; Obodovka, Transnistria, Ion Antonescu, Holocaust,