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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.
