Looking for Strangers - The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

Informationen zum Autor Dori Katz is professor emeritus of modern languages and literature at Trinity College! Hartford! CT. She is the translator of several books from French and a poet. Her most recent collection of poems is Hiding in Other People's Houses. Klappentext The author is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium! she realized that she might! in fact! be able to unearth those years. This is a honest record of her attempt to do so. "Looking for Strangers is absolutely compelling, both deeply personal and historically important, giving us a glimpse of a small aspect, overlooked in the larger chronicles, of Holocaust trauma and, at the same time, describing a quest that is at once incredibly brave and penetratingly honest. It is one of those rare memoirs, telling a story that is universal in its appeal and profound in its understanding." -Barbara L. Estrin, author of The American Love Lyric after Auschwitz and Hiroshima" Zusammenfassung The author is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium! she realized that she might! in fact! be able to unearth those years. This is a honest record of her attempt to do so.

Product details

• Authors: Dori Katz, Katz Dori
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2013
• EAN: 9780226058627
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05862-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Europe, Memoirs, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs