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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In her mid-30s Helen Fremont discovered that, although she had been raised in the Midwest as a Catholic, she was in fact the daughter of Polish Jews. Fremont's tender but unsparing memoir chronicles the voyage of discovery she took with her older sister on their quest for information.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Leora, a juvenile court judge, wife, mother, and daughter, is caught in the routine of work, taking care of her family and aging parents. But she's also a second-generation Holocaust survivor. It's an identity she didn't understand was hers until she accidentally discovered a secret file of handwritten notes addressed to her father. A further discovery of a seemingly random WWII postcard in a thrift store sets her on a collision course with the past...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally acclaimed psychologist Dr. Edith Eger--one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors--tells her unforgettable story in this moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of choice in our lives. At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death,' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and...
6) By the grace of the game: the Holocaust, a basketball legacy, and an unprecedented American dream
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Language
English
Description
"This book details a family's unique story from escaping the Holocaust to landing in America to playing in the NBA"--
Author
Publisher
William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable life story of Mitka Kalinski, who, while still a child, survived the Holocaust and seven years of enslavement to a Nazi officer, then began a new life in the United States and revealed his secret past decades later"--
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white photo...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A survivor of the Holocaust describes how he learned through his darkest experiences of the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances, and later used that knowledge to help underprivileged youth in Boston for more than forty years.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Helen Fremont's bestselling memoir, After Long Silence, published in 1991 and still very much in print, vividly recounts her discovery in adulthood that her parents were not Catholics, as she thought (having herself been raised in that faith), but Jewish Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new memoir, Fremont delves even deeper into the family dynamic that...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in her family alive at the end of the war. Rachael also knew that she survived because of the kindness of strangers. It wasn't a secret. Hana spoke about her history publicly and regularly. But Rachael wanted to document it as only...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Klein's story is about merchants and landowners-aristocratic Polish Jews. It's about their lives in refugee and concentration camps. About parents who survived the Holocaust but could not overcome the tragedy they had experienced, and about their children, who became indirect victims of the atrocities endured by Holocaust victims. After their liberation, Ruth's parents were brought to the Displaced Person Camps in Germany, where they awaited...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. These objects and the memories they evoke are among the threads that scholar and writer Susan Rubin Suleiman uses to weave back together the story of her early life as a Holocaust refugee and American immigrant. In this coming-of-age story that probes the hopes parents have for their children and the inevitability of loss, Susan looks to her own life as a case study...
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