Where she came from
Subtitle: a daughter's search for her mother's history
By: Helen Epstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Epstein, Helen, 1947-  -- Family.; Epstein family.; Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Genealogy.; Children of Holocaust survivors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Prague (Czech Republic) -- Genealogy.
Description: Where She Came From is a memoir in the form of a quest for personal and historical understanding - a multi-generational saga with the sweep and emotional impact of a novel. After the death of her mother, Frances, in 1989, Helen Epstein set out to research and reconstruct the life of her mother and that of her grandmother and great-grandmother. Like so many children of Holocaust survivors and other people displaced by the catastrophes of the twentieth century, she had few family documents, only stories.

She traveled to Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Israel, searching out people who had known her family and locating material in libraries and archives on three continents. Using three decades of journalistic training, and working like an archaeologist with shards of data, she pieced together an account of the lives of the women in her family and the social history of Central European Jews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-322).