Memory Fields
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In Memory Fields, Shlomo Breznitz shifts from past to present, from a child's perspective to an adult's, to tell a poignant, gripping, and often terrifying story. Caught in Czechoslovakia during the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0679404031
ISBN13:9780679404033
Release Date:December 1992
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Length:179 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"
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A Jewish Boy remembers surviving the Holocaust in Slovakia
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A fine, well written memoir of one of the few Jewish survivors of the "Shoah" in Slovakia. A young boy and his sister are sent to a Catholic orphanage to survive WWII. Very human, often sadly humorous; a wonderfully touching Christmas scene where the author and his sister sing "Silent Night", in German, to one of the occupation officers -- since the Slovak orphans do not know German... The author intimates, but does not divulge many, harsh Nun disciplines; but dispensed fairly to all. There are interesting notes about playing chess, learnt from his father; the whispered myth that a Jew would convert into a Christian and become Pope -- with the author learning many Catholic prayers by heart, in Latin, fanning hopes for such a possibility; snippets of fervent Nazi anti-Jew, anti-Catholic actions ("Jesus was a Jewish child..." as the Nazis murder a priest). A sad, moving ending. Recently translated into Slovak.
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