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Magda's daughter : a hidden child's journey home / Evi Blaikie ; introduction by Bella Brodzki.
Van Pelt Library DS135.H93 B54 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaikie, Evi, 1939-
- Series:
- Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series
- The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blaikie, Evi, 1939---Childhood and youth.
- Blaikie, Evi.
- Blaikie, Evi, 1939-.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Hungary--Biography.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Hungary--Biography.
- Jews.
- Hidden children (Holocaust).
- Hungary.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Hungary--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish refugees--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 277 pages, 27 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, [2003]
- Summary:
- A heroic search for self and place, Evi Blaikie's passionate family memoir sweeps across three continents, five generations, and the extraordinary latter half of the twentieth century. Magda's Daughter plumbs the very depths of memory and childhood trauma to offer a unique account of life during -- and beyond -- the Holocaust. To survive the long shadow of the Third Reich, many children were placed in hiding, forced to keep their true identities -- names, religion, places of birth, even gender -- secret. Although these "Hidden Children" avoided capture and murder, their innocence could not be protected from the irreversible consequences of war and genocide. Among them was Evelyne Juliette, born in 1939 in Paris to Hungarian immigrants of high intellect and great passion. Her mother, the indomitable Magda, managed to send her daughter to safety in Hungary before being captured by the Nazis. At barely three years old, Evi was brought into Budapest under a male cousin's passport -- only the first of many false identities assumed to protect the shattered remnants of this young child's life. Eventually reunited with her mother, Evi would survive the war and the chaos of post-World War II Europe, but not without tremendous cost. In Magda's Daughter, this natural storyteller writes against the limits of memory and language, reminding us that no war is ever over until the last survivor is gone.
- Contents:
- Paris-Budapest, 1939-1944 7
- Hiding, 1944-1945 19
- Liberation 40
- 1945 44
- 1946 53
- Chateau des Groux, 1947-1948 63
- Summer of 1948 71
- Chateau Anna Szenes, 1948-1949 74
- Cheltenham, England, 1949-1950 82
- Paris and the Convent of Notre Dame, 1950-1951 95
- Norwood Jewish Orphanage, 1951-1954 104
- Saint Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls, 1951-1957 120
- What Color the Chameleon? 135
- From Pillar to Post 141
- 62 Chippenham Road, 1956-1958 152
- Reunion 168
- Vienna, 1957-1960 178
- Caracas, 1960 195
- New York City, June 1960 211
- An American Marriage, 1961-1978 228
- The Storm Before the Calm 258
- New York City, May 1991 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xix-xx).
- ISBN:
- 1558614435
- OCLC:
- 51837887
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