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Author Raab, Elisabeth M., 1921-

Title And peace never came / Elisabeth M. Raab
Published Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Life writing series ; 3
Life writing series ; 3.
Contents Acknowledgments; Five Years' Passage; Prologue; Our Window; Nora; Who in Their Right Mind ...?; The Narrowing Circle; Number 168; From the Ashes; What Remains; The Return; Alone; In Transit; Waiting; Farewell; Aftermath; The Visit-My Other Self; Historical Notes to And Peace Never Came
Summary ""It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath."" (from Chapter 5) So begins the author's sojourn, her search for freedom that begins with the chaotic barrenness in which she found herself after her liberatio
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196)
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Subject Raab, Elisabeth M., 1921-
Raab, Elisabeth M., 1921-
Auschwitz -- Konzentrationslager.
Jews -- Hungary -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Personal narratives
Holocaust survivors -- Canada
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Holocaust survivors
Jews
Erlebnisbericht
Judenvernichtung
Canada
Hungary
Ungarn
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97141738
ISBN 0585160953
9780585160955
0889206406
9780889206403
1554587700
9781554587704
1280925035
9781280925030
9786610925032
6610925038