children of holocaust survivors

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children of holocaust survivors

The flood

a novel
1996

The pages in between

a Holocaust legacy of two families, one home
2008
In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.

The net of dreams

a family's search for a rightful place
1996

Where she came from

a daughter's search for her mother's history
1997
A memoir in which the author, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, discusses her quest to reconstruct the lives of her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

A tree still stands

Jewish youth in Eastern Europe today
1990
A collection of interviews in which young people from Eastern Europe describe what life is like as descendants of Holocaust survivors.

Justice matters

legacies of the Holocaust and World War II
2004
Explores how the psychology of hatred and ethnic resentments is passed on from generation to generation, focusing on how children of both Holocaust victims and Nazis were impacted by the experiences of their ancestors.

Second generation voices

reflections by children of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators
2001
Presents the memoirs and poetry of several men and women whose parents were Holocaust survivors or perpetrators, covering such topics as visits to parents' birthplaces and death camps, faith and religion, identity and the Yiddish language, repression, and dialogue between children of survivors and children of Nazis.

Daughters of absence

transforming a legacy of loss
2000
A group of creative young women discuss what it was like to grow up in the shadow of their parents' Holocaust ordeal and how they incorporated that legacy into their work.

Maus

a survivor's tale
1997
Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

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