
March 23 , 2020
Linda Schwab and Todd Mealy’s “Displaced” is the Sunbury Press bestseller for February
SUNBURY PRESS / DISTELFINK PRESS / OXFORD SOUTHERN - Bestsellers for February 2020 (by Revenue) | ||||
Rank | Prior | Title | Author | Category |
1 | 1 | Displaced | Linda Schwab | Holocaust Memoir |
2 | 10 | I Made a Short Film Now WTF Do I Do With It? | Clarissa Jacobson | Self-Help |
3 | 8 | Surviving: A Kent State Memoir | Paula Tucker | Memoir |
4 | -- | Embattled Freedom | Jim Remsen | History |
5 | -- | Baseball Under the Palms | Sam Zygner | Baseball |
6 | 5 | The Last Ride of the Iron Horse | Dan Joseph | Baseball |
7 | NEW | The Blood Letter | Helga Rist | Memoir |
8 | 24 | The Life and Loves of Thaddeus Stevens | Mark Singel | History |
9 | 26 | The Foreman's Boys | William Marcum | History |
10 | 16 | The Journalist | Oxana Lapchuk | Holocaust Memoir |
11 | -- | As the Paint Dries | Carrie Wissler-Thomas | History |
12 | 7 | Cruel Death, Heartless Aftermath | Barbara Mancini | Memoir |
13 | NEW | Golden Beauty Boss | Cheryl Brooks | Biography |
14 | 20 | Gods, Philosophers, and Scientists | Scott Hendrix | Science |
15 | NEW | What to Do About Mama? 2 ed | Barbara Matthews | Self-Help |
16 | -- | 1780: Year of Revenge | John L. Moore | History |
17 | 29 | Raising Monarchs | Sue Fox McGovern | Nature |
18 | 11 | Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, 2nd Ed. | Mike Campbell | History |
19 | -- | Scorched Earth: General Sullivan and the Senecas | John L. Moore | History |
20 | 23 | Collission Course | William Cook | Basketball |
21 | -- | Prohibition's Prince | Guy Graybill | Biography |
22 | -- | In the Company of Patriots | Virginia Brackett | Biography |
23 | -- | American Citizen | Benjamin Myers | Biography |
24 | -- | Pioneers, Prisoners, and Peacepipes | John L. Moore | History |
25 | 6 | What Springs of Rain | Lindsay Lough | Nature |
26 | -- | Settlers, Soldiers, and Scalps | John L. Moore | History |
27 | -- | Forts, Forests, and Flintlocks | John L. Moore | History |
28 | 15 | Dead Center | Jason Altmire | Politics |
29 | -- | Rivers, Raiders, and Renegades | John L. Moore | History |
30 | -- | Traders, Travelers, and Tomahawks | John L. Moore | History |
Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning
Displaced is Linda Schwab’s Holocaust memoir, a retelling of her experience surviving 18 months in a man-made cave, another year as an exile in Poland and Germany, and three years as a refugee in a displaced persons camp. Just six years old when a band of Nazi soldiers arrived in her tiny shtetl in Myadel, Poland, Linda observed atrocities no child ever needs to witness. With her parents and two brothers, during the summer of 1942, Linda was forcibly relocated into a ghetto where most of the Jewish men were led to the nearby forest and killed in a pogrom. After the massacre, Linda escaped with her family into the Ponar Forest, but only after evading Polish nationals and Nazis that patrolled Poland's countryside. Deep in the woods, Linda’s family lived in a cave. They survived brutal winters, eluded partisan fighters that might force Linda’s father to leave the family, and remained out of sight from Nazis and Polish police, who at one point, came only feet from their dugout.
Written with historian Todd M. Mealy during a time when Holocaust deniers aim to rehabilitate the Nazi ideology and as roughly 400,000 survivors remain with us, Displaced presents Schwab’s singular voice. Her narrative will help maintain—if not bolster—Holocaust knowledge, as her story of surviving the Polish wilderness during WWII and in a Displaced Persons Camp after the war is unique from most accounts. Displaced will inspire the rest of us to confront hatred in its many forms.
by Linda Schwab and Todd M. Mealy, Ph.D.
SUNBURY PRESS
Trade paperback - 6 x 9 x .8
9781620063866
128 Pages
HISTORY / Holocaust
HISTORY / Jewish
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern