Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust - Hardcover

Goldberg, Rita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1620970732 ISBN 13: 9781620970737

Verlag: NEW PR, 2015

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"Rita Goldberg's mother was a Holocaust survivor whose epic escapes from the Nazis were worthy of a film script. But like many children of camp survivors, Rita has also been affected profoundly by her experience."
--"The Guardian"

"Ms. Goldberg's book is an exemplary attempt to confront the complex fate of these families cut brutally from their own history. "Motherland" is a double memoir that braids her parents' story with her own, and succeeds in articulating a difficult truth."
--"The Economist"
"A double memoir that braids her parents' story with her own, and succeeds in articulating a difficult truth."
--The Economist

"At the heart of this engrossing memoir is her mother...The extraordinary tale is heroic. It strikes the reader as thoroughly romantic, even cinematic."
--The New York Times

"Goldberg writes eloquently of the 'volcanic pressures' that shaped her family's story and continue to haunt her own."
--Kirkus Reviews

Reseña del editor:

I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically,” writes Rita Goldberg. In a deeply moving second-generation Holocaust memoir, Goldberg introduces the extraordinary story of Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank’s family who was fifteen when the Nazis invaded Holland. After the arrest of her parents in 1943, Hilde fled to Belgium, living out the war years in an extraordinary set of circumstances among the Resistance and at Bergen-Belsen after its liberation that the Guardian newspaper judged worthy of a film script.”

As astonishing as Hilde’s story is, Rita herself emerges as the central, fascinating character in this utterly unique account. Proud of her mother and yet struggling to forge an identity in the shadow of such heroic accomplishments (in a family setting that included close relationships with the iconic Frank family), Rita Goldberg reveals a little-explored aspect of Holocaust survival: the often-wrenching family and interpersonal struggles of the children and grandchildren whose own lives are haunted by historic tragedy.

Motherland is the culmination of a lifetime of reflection and a decade of research. It is an epic story of survival, adventure, and new life.

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• Verlag: NEW PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1620970732
• ISBN 13: 9781620970737
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352