An Ordinary Life? - The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996

A Jew, Pole, daughter, mother, wife, Communist, migrant, Holocaust survivor, and refugee driven to fight for a better world. Ordinary or anything but? In Tonia Lechtman’s life, the lofty and the quotidian intertwined, making everything she did both monumental and mundane. Who was she?

About the author

Anna Müller is the Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is the author of If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland and is a former curator at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdäsk, Poland.

Summary

A Jew, Pole, daughter, mother, wife, Communist, migrant, Holocaust survivor, and refugee driven to fight for a better world. Ordinary or anything but? In Tonia Lechtman’s life, the lofty and the quotidian intertwined, making everything she did both monumental and mundane. Who was she?

Product details

• Authors: Anna Mnller, Anna Muller
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2023
• EAN: 9780821424971
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2497-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries