From Rebuke to Rejoicing

About the Book

This is the story of the author, Moshe Nordheim, a Dutch Jewish boy, who abruptly loses his pastoral childhood on the banks of the river in Amsterdam when he is deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp together with his parents and siblings.

Moshe, the child, survives the concentration camps and tells his personal account of his many brushes with death. The language of the book is sharp and direct, drawing the reader into the horrifying experiences of the author's youth. The reader is plunged into Moshe's journey, a journey of the Jewish people, paved with tortures of the damned in the Holocaust, and ending in redemption in the Land of Israel.

This is a tale of survival, will power, and initiative, against all odds.

The author describes his family history, the history of a Jewish family spanning 100 years, and focusing on the events that occurred during World War II. The vast majority of the author's family was annihilated in the Holocaust.

The book ends with the rebirth of the surviving remnant of the family, who establish a home in Israel after the war.

About the Author

The author, Moshe Nordheim, is a native of Holland. After surviving the concentration camps as a child between the ages of 9 and 11, as described in the book, the author immigrated to Israel in 1946. He completed his mandatory army service, studied at the university, and worked in the field of education, eventually serving as the vice principal of a high school. In mid-life, the author trained in the field of computers, and for the next thirty years up to and including the present, runs the computer department of the Israel branch of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint, JDC).