Title: Where She Came From
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Jews, Genealogy, Biography, Children of Holocaust survivors, Family, Czech republic, genealogy, Jews, genealogy, Jews, united states, biography, Prague (czech republic), Women, biography
Places: New York, New York (State), Prague, Prague (Czech Republic), Czech Republic
People: Helen Epstein (1947-), Epstein family
LC classification: DS135.C97 E67 1997