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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786954603321

Autore

Auerbach Karen

Titolo

The house at Ujazdowskie 16 [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish families in Warsaw after the Holocaust / / Karen Auerbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-253-00915-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

The modern Jewish experience

Disciplina

940.53/18140943841

Soggetti

Jews - Poland - Warsaw

Jews - Poland - Warsaw - Social conditions - 20th century

Jews - Poland - Warsaw - Social conditions - 21st century

Jews - Poland - Warsaw - Social life and customs

Jews - Homes and haunts - Poland - Warsaw - History

Warsaw (Poland) Buildings, structures, etc History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

History brushed against us: the Adlers and the Bergmans -- The families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue, 1900-1948 -- The entire nation builds its capital: Ujazdowskie Avenue and reconstructed Warsaw -- Stamp of a generation: parents and children -- Ostriches in the wilderness: children and parents -- Finding the obliterated traces of the path: seeds of revival.

Sommario/riassunto

In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish capital and created new communities as they sought to distance themselves from the memory of a painful past. Based on interviews with family members, intensive research in archives, and the families' personal papers and correspondence, Karen Auerbach presents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth,