Children of the Holocaust : conversations with sons and daughters of survivors /
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| Author / Creator: | Epstein, Helen, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1988, ©1979. |
| Description: | 355 pages ; 20 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10091824 |
| Summary: | "I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." <p>The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common- their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found-</p> .Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America;<br> .Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal;<br> .Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who-at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion.<br> <p>Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.</p> |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published: New York : Putnam, ©1979. |
| Physical Description: | 355 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-355). |
| ISBN: | 0140112847 9780140112849 |