| Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy Ser |
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Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy Ser
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- PART I. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE -- Chapter 1. My Childhood and Youth: In the House of My Grandparents -- Chapter 2. The War Begins -- Chapter 3. Working in a Slave Labor Ammunition Factory -- Chapter 4. Working in a Slave Labor Factory in Germany: Liberation and Return to Chaos -- PART II. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE -- Chapter 5. On Being a Refugee in the Land of Gold -- PART III. IN MY VOICE -- Chapter 6. A Child-Adult Remembers Home, War, Loss, and Liberation -- Chapter 7. The Child Becomes an Adult -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Mother's World and Our Family before World War II -- Appendix 2. Hasidism -- APPENDIX 3. Genealogy -- APPENDIX 4. Prayers and Calendar of Jewish Holidays Reconstructed by Golda Finkler in Hasag-Leipzig -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mothers and daughters separate perspectives of their experiences before, during and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transformative period in Eastern Europe and opens a window to the crucial events of that epoch. The challenge of the narratives provides the urgency of the story and the richness of the historical record. It is also an unforgettable story of love, loss and longing for family engulfed by war. The book will resonate with those interested in the lives of individual women and children, mothers and daughters; scholars, and students of history, World War II, gender, and religion, especially Hasidism, immigrants, and with mainstream readers in this and future generations unfamiliar with life during the first half of the twentieth century in Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-341) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Finkler, Kaja
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Finkler, Golda, 1903-1991.
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| SUBJECT |
Finkler, Golda, 1903-1991 fast |
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Finkler, Kaja fast |
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Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Biography
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Jews -- Poland -- Biography
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Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Anthropologists
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Holocaust survivors
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Jews
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Poland
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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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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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Finkler, Golda, 1903-1991, author.
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| ISBN |
1618111167 |
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9781618111166 |
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