Description |
1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
How it began -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter -- The quiet season/childhood in the ghetto -- Another Fall and Winter -- Spring -- Escape -- On green hill -- In the village -- Liberation -- A new year -- Second year/seven journeys |
Summary |
Crossing the River is a personal memoir-and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania's occupation-first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians-it is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine. The adult survivor, while recalling the terrorized child that he was and how he then perceived the adult world, also takes stock of his present life. Th |
Notes |
"Published in cooperation with Yad Vashem, Jerusalem." |
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"Originally published in Hebrew as La-ḥatsot et ha-nahar by Carmel/Yad Vashem, 1999"--Title page verso |
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English |
Subject |
Eilati, Shalom, 1933-
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Eilati, Shalom, 1933- |
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Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Biography
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Personal narratives
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Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust
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Jews
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Kaunas (Lithuania) -- Biography
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Lithuania -- Kaunas
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Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lenz, Vern
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Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah.
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LC no. |
2008018605 |
ISBN |
9780817386825 |
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0817386823 |
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9780817381073 |
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0817381074 |
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