First Words
Subtitle: A Childhood in Fascist Italy
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: August 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780805062588
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Jews; History; Fascism; Italy - History; Military - World War II; Biography / Autobiography; History: American; Italy; Childhood Memoir; Historical - Holocaust; Literary; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Fascism & Nazism; History / Italy; World history: Second World War; Persecutions; Europe - Italy; Personal narratives; Catholic Church
First sentence: IF I GO BACK IN TIME and think of when I first heard the word Jew, I see myself sitting on a little blue chair in the nursery, a room with flowery peach-colored wallpaper showing the marks of children's scribbles.