Keeping the Promise: A Torah's Journey (General Jewish Interest)

By Tami Lehman-Wilzig

Book Overview

This is a remarkable story of a tiny Torah smuggled into the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by a rabbi. Knowing he would not survive, the rabbi entrusts the Torah to a boy for safekeeping, asking only that he tell its story. Years later, Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon takes this Torah with him into space.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580131174
• ISBN13: 9781580131179
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Kar-Ben Pub
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Keep Kleenex handy when you read Keeping the Promise

I went to see Tami Lehman-Wilzig read this book and talk about the process she went through to create the book. As she read the story, I began to sob and then I cried. I waited until the very last word and then I went to the bathroom and really cried for about 5 minutes. My tears reflected my feelings about this extraordinary story. She has captured not only an incredible story from the Holocaust, but also the story of a nation. The first Israeli astronaut and the impact he had on people around the world. This is a book for older children who can understand the gravity and enormity encompassing this story.

A story for the ages

This story of a tiny Torah scroll that survives the Nazis to accompany Ilan Ramon on the doomed Columbia mission is one that all children, especially Jewish children should hear. The themes of hope and promise are universal. There are true heros in this world and Rabbi Dasberg (z"l) and Ilan Ramon (z"l) are two of them.