Flares of memory : stories of childhood during the Holocaust /

Flares of memory : stories of childhood during the Holocaust /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxix, 344 pages) : portraits
Language:	English
Subject:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Biography. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Electronic books. Biographies. Personal narratives.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11193666

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Other authors / contributors:	Brostoff, Anita. Chamovitz, Sheila.
ISBN:	9780198031710 0198031718 9780195313529 0195313526 0195138716 9780195138719 128065533X 9781280655333
Notes:	Includes indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors assembled recently to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" invoke lost childhoods, preserving the voices of over forty Jews from throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten--by them nor us. Including a timeline that chronicles the rise of the Nazis, their devastating campaigns for control of Europe, and the successive edicts that would annihilate millions, Flares of Memory consists of 92 brief vignettes.
Other form:	Print version: Flares of memory. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 0195138716 9780195138719

Table of Contents:

Snapshots: Jewish life before the Holocaust
The destruction of a society
Ruthlessness as a system
The lottery of death and life
Disguise as a way of hiding
The sustaining power of family love
The virtuous and the vicious
Desperate heroism
Emergence into the light
The aftermath: remembering.