We are here [[electronic resource] ] : memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust / / Ellen Cassedy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461386603321
• Autore: Cassedy Ellen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-68754-1; 9786613664488; 0-8032-4022-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/1807202; B
• Soggetti: Jews - Lithuania - History; Electronic books.; Lithuania Description and travel; Lithuania Ethnic relations
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preparations; Part One. Mir zaynen do; Here, on This Spot; The Nazi Era; The Soviet Era; The Bystander; Part Two. Mes Dar Esame; Our Goal Is to TransformOurselves; An Indelible Memory andan Unhealing Scar; Jewish Ways of Learning; Landsman; I Helped What I Can; Part Three. We Are All Here; From the Archives; At the Gate; Leaving the Jerusalemof the North; Voices of the Shavl Ghetto; The Bystander and theJewish Policeman; Important Dates in LithuanianHistory; Author's Note
• Sommario/riassunto: Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusalem of the North." As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How doe