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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455349203321

Autore

Powell Lawrence N

Titolo

Troubled memory [[electronic resource] ] : Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana / / Lawrence N. Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8078-6048-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (613 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18/0922

Soggetti

Jews - Poland

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland

Holocaust survivors - Louisiana - New Orleans

Electronic books.

Louisiana Politics and government 1951-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-576) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Note on Polish Pronunciation; 1. The Political Gets Personal; 2. Poland; 3. From Lodz to Warsaw; 4. The Warsaw Ghetto; 5. Schultz's Shop; 6. The Vegetable Bin; 7. Escape; 8. Passing; 9. The Lumberyard; 10. Homecoming; 11. Flight and Freedom; 12. New Americans; 13. When Memory Returns; 14. Awakening; 15. Redemption; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who undertook a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi David Duke. It seeks to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the USA.