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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454263403321

Autore

Fass Paula S

Titolo

Inheriting the Holocaust [[electronic resource] ] : a second-generation memoir / / Paula S. Fass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-03352-2

9786612033520

0-8135-4647-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18092

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Soggetti

Jews - Poland - Łodz - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence

Children of Holocaust survivors

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Going to Poland: May 2000 -- I never had grandparents -- One uncle -- The complexity of aunts -- First families -- My parents -- My mother/myself.

Sommario/riassunto

In Inheriting the Holocaust, Paula S. Fass explores her own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Through her parents' experiences and the stories they recounted, Fass defined her engagement as a historian and used these skills to better understand her parents' lives. Fass begins her journey through time and relationships when she travels to Poland and locates birth certificates of the murdered siblings she never knew. That journey to recover her family's story provides her with ever more evidence for the perplexing reliability of memory and its winding path toward historical reconstruction. In the end, Fass recovers parts of her family's history only to discover that Poland is rapidly re-imagining the role Jews played in the nation's past.