The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir

Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives listeners a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With heartbreaking and honest reflection, the author shares a gripping first-person narrative of his transformation from a Jewish eleven-year-old boy living happily in Tyczyn, Poland, with his brother and parents, to his experiences as a teenage victim of growing persecution, brutality, and imprisonment as the Nazis pursued the Final Solution. The author takes the listener back in time as he reveals in vivid and engrossing details the painful memories of life in his childhood town during Nazi occupation, the forced march before his jeering and cold-eyed former friends and neighbors as they are driven from their homes into the crowded and terrible conditions in the Rzeszow ghetto, and the heart-wrenching memory of his final farewell as he is separated from his parents who would be sent in boxcars to the Belzec extermination camp. This new and substantially reworked twentieth anniversary edition incorporates research based on recently discovered documents related to George Salton's concentration camp experience, a new foreword by Michael Berenbaum, and a new afterword of George Salton's unpublished speeches.

About the Author :
George Salton survived ten Nazi concentration camps and emigrated to the United States in 1947, where he forged a new life. He proudly served in the US Army and became an American citizen. Using the GI Bill, Salton earned a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University. George Salton had a distinguished career with the Department of Defense eventually becoming Director of Defense Communications at the Pentagon. In 2002 George and his daughter, Anna Salton Eisen, cowrote his bestselling memoir, The 23rd Psalm. He spent many years speaking and sharing his story and teaching the lessons of the Holocaust which are becoming ever more critical to humanity. He died after a sudden illness at the age of eighty-eight on March 13, 2016. Steven Jay Cohen has been telling stories his whole life, and has worked professionally as a storyteller since 1991. A classically trained actor, he has worked both on stage and behind the microphone for most of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Steven now resides in scenic western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, kids, and too many pets to mention. Anna Salton Eisen was a founding member of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, site of the antisemitic hostage-taking in January 2022. She is the producer of the film In My Father's Words, based on The 23rd Psalm, and her sequel memoir about her journey to uncover her father's past, Pillar of Salt. Michael Berenbaum is a professor of Jewish studies and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. The author or editor of twenty-three books, he was the project director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the director of its Research Institute.