Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland

ISBN-13: 9780521882743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 308 str.

Christopher Browning; Nechama Tec; Richard S. Hollander

Opis

Author Richard Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1986. While rummaging through their attic, he discovered letters from a family he never knew -- his father s mother, three sisters, and their husbands and children. The letters, neatly stacked in a briefcase, were written from Krakow, Poland, between 1939 and 1942. They depict day-to-day life under the most extraordinary pain and stress. At the same time, Richard s father, Joseph Hollander, was fighting the United States government to avoid deportation and death. Richard was astounded to learn that his father saved the lives of many Polish Jews, but -- despite heroic efforts -- could not save his family."

Recenzje

'… this book achieves the elusive combination of being of value to experts in the field and of interest to a wider public … it also remains highly relevant to today's world.' Keith Stuart Parkes, Polish-Studies.Interdisciplinary (www.pol-int.org)

Spis treści

Part I. Joseph's Story: Joseph Richard S. Hollander; Part II. Cracow: The fate of the Jews of Cracow under Nazi occupation Christopher R. Browning; Through the eyes of the oppressed Nechama Tec; Part III. The Letters: 1. Letters without reply: November 1939-May 1940; 2. Separation anxiety: May-August 1940; 3. Exit strategy: September-December 1940; 4. Familial love, penned: January-December 1941; Index.