How wonderful to be able to retain them through this collection. Beautifully written and impressively researched, it tells the story of America and its immigrants as well as anything I have ever read. In this memoir of loss and recovery, the author describes her Jewish childhood in Romania, her survival of the Holocaust in Budapest, and her later life in Southern California. The author escaped Nazi Germany just in time and built a new life for himself and his family, first in South America, and later in Los Angeles. An amusing and uplifting group of tales.
Wise morals abound.
An engaging addition to the ethnography and humor of the Jews. A trip to Vienna brings one woman's Holocaust experiences into the open, bringing back memories of the dark years of Nazi occupation and the breakup of her family. Bratton won't let you get away with the idea of separating secular anitSemitism from its religious roots. In 1938, when R. Gabriele S. Silten was five years old, her family fled their home in Berlin for Amsterdam, where she grew up under the shadow of Nazi terrorism. Here is a memoir of those dark years from an unusual child's-eye point of view, a remarkable testament to the confusion, alienation, and shattering of innocence sufferd by Jewish children who were victims of the Holocaust.