Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust, expanded edition

"From time to time one comes across a book of true tales that not only has the power to be painfully moving, but also terribly informing about what it was like to survive the Holocaust. Bernard Gotfryd, in his true tales, has given us such a book."

"Thirty autobiographical stories whose banal details and well-placed silences haunt long after the book is finished."

"Written with integrity and honesty, Anton helps us to recognize human strength and precariousness, and the complexity of human existence. The book rouses our responsibility and makes us face people and history through the specific voices Gotfryd lets us hear, and the specific faces and places he lets us see."

"[A] fine collection of 30 true stories, some nostalgic, others heartbreaking, all of them moving."

"Astonishing and important... quite marvelous... these stories are real pearls."

"Bernard Gotfryd... shows himself to be an exemplary man, mild and strong, never desperate, in constant search for goodness even in the most extreme situations. We are grateful to him for this book because it makes us think."

"An important contribution to the literature of memory."

"The book gave me a bit of hope about the worst things in us, and that is an achievement."

"Poignant and painful reading... so immediate that it is as if it... is happening today."