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Bashert : a granddaughter's Holocaust quest /
Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and bigger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her sojourn, a quest for truth, gave her tragic answers. On a group tour of ancestral Jewish homeland sites that had been crushed in the Holocaust, she mak...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and bigger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her sojourn, a quest for truth, gave her tragic answers. On a group tour of ancestral Jewish homeland sites that had been crushed in the Holocaust, she makes a riveting detour to her grandmother's village of Volchin, in what is now Belarus, where the last known family members had lived. There, she followed the trail of the death march taken by the village Jews to the place of their slaughter by Nazis and Nazi collaborators in the fall of 1942. During the s. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604735925 1604735929 1578064813 9781578064816 1283434547 9781283434546 9786613434548 661343454X 9781628467475 1628467479 |