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A gift from the enemy : childhood memories in wartime Italy / Eric Lamet ; with a foreword by Risa Sodi.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamet, Eric, 1930-
- Series:
- Religion, theology, and the Holocaust
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lamet, Eric, 1930-.
- Lamet, Eric.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna--Biography.
- Jews.
- Mothers and sons.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jews, Austrian.
- Austria--Vienna.
- Italy.
- Jews, Austrian--Italy--Biography.
- Jewish refugees--Italy--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Italy--Biography.
- Mothers and sons--Biography.
- Vienna (Austria)--Biography.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Authors' autographs.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Autumn brought the chestnut season. The luscious green, dense forests, Ospedaletto's natural blanket, produced a large chesnut harvest. But in spite of the crop's abundance, I could risk my life if I as much as entered the woods during that season. Various families from the village had laid claim to sections of the woods and protected their territories with shotguns. But nature, in its generosity, allowed a few chestnuts to fall outside the woods from the heavily laden trees that bordered the roads. Children and adults hastened to compete for the rich fruit, for it provided a delicious meal or a dessert ... Although only eleven, I was aware how much my mother struggled to provide food with the little money she was getting, and anytime I could, I was proud to make a minor contribution."
- Contents:
- Escape from Vienna
- Poland
- my extended family
- Milan
- Settling down
- Paris
- Nice
- San Remo
- Mother goes to the hospital
- Our new home on the hill
- Internment
- Getting settled
- Religion in our lives
- Moving to our apartment
- New internees arrive
- Our first winter
- Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa
- A letter from Omama
- Keeping myself occupied
- A new suit
- Don Antonio
- Pietro Russo is freed
- Tragedies and grief
- Lello is born
- Pierce's betrayal
- The German occupation
- Montevergine
- The battle for Salerno
- Normalizing our lives
- Life in America
- Epilogue.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Library's copy signed by the author.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert and Annette Linck.
- ISBN:
- 9780815608851
- 0815608853
- OCLC:
- 80360267
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