Troubled memory : Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana / Lawrence N. Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Lawrence N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--Biography.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust survivors--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Louisiana--Politics and government--1951-.

Louisiana.

Levy, Anne.

Skorecki family.

Duke, David, 1950-.

Duke, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (613 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who undertook a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi David Duke. It seeks to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the USA.

Contents:

A Note on Polish Pronunciation; 1. The Political Gets Personal; 2. Poland; 3. From Lodz to Warsaw; 4. The Warsaw Ghetto; 5. Schultz's Shop; 6. The Vegetable Bin; 7. Escape; 8. Passing; 9. The Lumberyard; 10. Homecoming; 11. Flight and Freedom; 12. New Americans; 13. When Memory Returns; 14. Awakening; 15. Redemption; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-576) and index.

ISBN:

9780807860489

0807860484

OCLC:

476237332