In her father's eyes
Subtitle: a childhood interrupted by the Holocaust
By: Béla Weichherz ; translated, edited, and introduced by Daniel H. Magilow.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780813543765
Subjects: Weichherz, Béla; Weichherz, Kitty, -- 1929-1942; Jews -- Slovakia -- Bratislava -- Biography; Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Slovakia -- Bratislava -- Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Slovakia -- Bratislava -- Personal narratives; Fathers and daughters; Bratislava (Slovakia) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
Description: "Translated from the German for the first time, In Her Father's Eyes is a diary by Bela Weichherz, in which he documents the life of his only daughter, Kitty, in prewar Czechoslovakia. Started as a baby book before her birth in 1929, the journal contains frequent entries about the ups and downs of Kitty's childhood, often written in vivid detail. Weichherz included photographs, developmental charts, and Kitty's own drawings to enhance the text and document his daughter's physical, intellectual, and emotional development. The journal entries stop in early spring 1942, just days before the family's deportation to a Nazi death camp. In its final pages, a recognizable tale of one anonymous life becomes a heartbreaking story about how anti-Semitism and nationalism in Slovakia shattered this normalcy.".

"In Her Father's Eyes sheds light on a fascinating but underexamined corner of Central Europe, where anti-Jewish measures often exceeded Nazi Germany's in their harshness. By bridging prewar and wartime periods, the diary also provides a rich context for understanding the history from which the Holocaust emerged. And all the while, it remains a moving story of a father's profound love for his only child."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Diary/baby book by a Czech Jew about his daughter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.