Shattered 50 Years Of Silence

Biography & Memoir History

Shattered 50 Years of Silence by Felicia Steigman Carmelly is a hard-to-find 1997 hardcover that recounts one Romanian Jewish woman’s survival of the Holocaust and her decades-long quest to speak. History collectors and war-memoir readers prize this Abbeyfeild first edition for its unflinching clarity and rare Romanian perspective.

The biography opens with pre-war family life, then traces Carmelly through ghettos, forced labor, and post-war displacement, finally revealing how silence itself became a lingering enemy. Compact chapters make the narrative accessible to both young-adult and adult audiences seeking true stories of endurance.

This copy is warmly inscribed on the fly-leaf, adding personal value for collectors of signed memorabilia. You’ll note minor pen marks on the inner back cover and gentle page-edge discoloration—common for a book of this age—yet the boards remain sturdy and the dust jacket vivid.

A scarce addition to any antiquarian military or Judaica shelf, Shattered 50 Years of Silence offers more than testimony; it delivers a testament to memory and reclamation.