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Informationen zum Autor Paula S. Fass Klappentext In Inheriting the Holocaust, Paula S. Fass explores her own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Her journey through time and relationships begins when she travels to Poland and locates birth certificates of the murdered siblings she never knew. Recovering her family’s story provides Fass with ever more evidence for the perplexing reliability of memory, its winding path toward historical reconstruction, and a re-imagining of the role Jews played in Poland’s past. Zusammenfassung Explores the author own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Through her parents' experiences and the stories they recounted! this title defines her engagement as a historian and used these skills to understand her parents' lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Inheriting Memory1 Going to Poland: May 20002 I Never Had Grandparents3 One Uncle4 The Complexity of Aunts5 First Families6 My Parents7 My Mother/MyselfAfterword: Poland, AgainAppendix: Family Tree
