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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454236403321

Autore

Weichherz Béla

Titolo

In her father's eyes [[electronic resource] ] : a childhood extinguished by the Holocaust / / Béla Weichherz ; translated, edited, and introduced by Daniel H. Magilow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-80169-0

9786611801694

0-8135-4556-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18092

B

Soggetti

Jews - Slovakia - Bratislava

Jewish children in the Holocaust - Slovakia - Bratislava

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Slovakia - Bratislava

Fathers and daughters

Electronic books.

Bratislava (Slovakia) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Diary/baby book by a Czech Jew about his daughter.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- An Introduction to In Her Father's Eyes -- Note on the Photographs -- Notebook 1. March 1929-May 1933 -- Notebook 2. June 1933-June 1942 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- About the Editor

Sommario/riassunto

Translated from the German for the first time, In Her Father's Eyes is the diary of Béla 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. 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 is a moving tale about Jewish life and a father's profound love for his only child. By bridging prewar and wartime periods, the diary also provides a rich context for understanding the history from which the Holocaust emerged.