Bashert : a granddaughter's Holocaust quest / Andrea Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Andrea, 1945-

Series:

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--Belarus--Valozhyn.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus--Valozhyn.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Persecutions.

Valozhyn (Belarus)--Ethnic relations.

Valozhyn (Belarus).

Belarus--Valozhyn.

Physical Description:

xv, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2002]

Summary:

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.

As she interweaves tragic narrative with evocative family anecdotes, Simon writes a story of life in czarist Russia and, within this frame, of her family's flight from pogroms and persecution. From a unique vantage Simon's memoir discloses her dogged genealogical search, the newly perceived Jewish history she uncovered, and the ramifications of the Holocaust in the postwar generation.

Contents:

1. Bashert 1

2. Protest 44

3. Connection 60

4. Disappearance 81

5. Longing 103

6. Collaboration 119

7. Isolation 152

8. Annihilation 186

9. Response 199

10. Atonement 216

11. Survival 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index.

ISBN:

1578064813

OCLC:

48892824