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Lives lived and lost : East European history before, during, and after World War II as experienced by an anthropologist and her mother /

Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mothers and daughters separate perspectives of their experiences before, during and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transformativ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Finkler, Kaja (Autor), Finkler, Golda, 1903-1991 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press. ©2012
Colección:Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Prologue
  • PART I. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE
  • Chapter 1. My Childhood and Youth: In the House of My Grandparents
  • Chapter 2. The War Begins
  • Chapter 3. Working in a Slave Labor Ammunition Factory
  • Chapter 4. Working in a Slave Labor Factory in Germany: Liberation and Return to Chaos
  • PART II. IN MY MOTHER'S VOICE
  • Chapter 5. On Being a Refugee in the Land of Gold
  • PART III. IN MY VOICE
  • Chapter 6. A Child-Adult Remembers Home, War, Loss, and Liberation
  • Chapter 7. The Child Becomes an Adult
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. Mother's World and Our Family before World War II
  • Appendix 2. Hasidism
  • APPENDIX 3. Genealogy
  • APPENDIX 4. Prayers and Calendar of Jewish Holidays Reconstructed by Golda Finkler in Hasag-Leipzig
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index