Echoes of Exile: A Family's Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War. Daniela Spenser
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ISBN: 9780817395667 | 320 pages | 8 Mb
- Echoes of Exile: A Family's Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War
- Daniela Spenser
- Page: 320
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780817395667
- Publisher: University of Alabama Press
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Overview
A sweeping exploration of survival, resilience, and the fate of one family amid Europe’s most turbulent century Echoes of Exile reveals the seismic disruptions of twentieth-century European history through the intimate lens of one family’s struggle to survive. Setting out to record the life of her mother, Ruth, Daniela Spenser unearthed personal facts and stories that additionally illuminate the shared traumas and experiences of millions of Czech, Polish, and German Jews who died in the Holocaust, as well as the stories of those who survived and lived under Communism and the Cold War. Her resulting work is a fascinating hybrid that combines family letters and interviews with deeply researched political history spanning from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Spenser’s fascinating work reveals the difficult choices her mother and family faced, the tests to their loves and loyalties, and the lingering scars of exile. More than a family history, it weaves personal and historical narratives with mundane and momentous threads to create a fresh, distinctive fabric. Spenser recovers fragments of the past that contribute to a map of the present and possibilities for the future. An engrossing account of survival, resilience, and the enduring human spirit amid the maelstrom of Europe’s savage twentieth century, Echoes of Exile will interest readers who value firsthand accounts of significant events and who seek to understand the complexities of survival, identity, and political change through intimate, lived experiences.
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