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