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Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors Paperback - 1988

by Helen Epstein


Summary

"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived."

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:

  • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America;
  • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal;
  • 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.

Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

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"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived."

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:

- Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America;
- Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal;
- 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.

Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

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  • Title Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors
  • Author Helen Epstein
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1988-10-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780140112849 / 0140112847
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.86 x 5.06 x 0.86 in (19.96 x 12.85 x 2.18 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -, Children of Holocaust survivors - Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88009606
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

About the author

Helen Epstein is the author of four previous books, including Children Of The Holocaust, Joe Papp: An American Life, and Music Talks, and her articles have been featured in The New York Times, the Miami Herald, and many Judaica periodicals. She is an affiliate of Harvard University's Center for European Studies.
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