Hiding places : a mother, a daughter, an uncovered life / Diane Wyshogrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyshogrod, Diane.

Series:

Excelsior Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, American--Israel--Biography.

Jews, American.

Clinical psychologists--Biography.

Clinical psychologists.

Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Mothers and daughters--Biography.

Mothers and daughters.

Wyshogrod, Diane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : Excelsior Editions : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Finalist for the 2013 Montaigne Medal presented by Hopewell PublicationsWhat's it like to spend sixteen months in hiding, crouching in a tiny cellar, during the dark years of World War II? To know that many of your friends and relatives have either been shot or sent to concentration camps? To have your life depend on the humanity of an elderly Christian couple who lets you hide under their floor? What if you knew it had been your mother crouching under that floor? Wouldn't you wonder how she stood it? How it felt? What it did to her? And how it all affected you? In Hiding Places, Diane Wyshogrod traces the process of discovery and self-discovery as she researched the experiences of her mother, Helen Rosenberg, who as a teenager hid in just such a cellar, in Zółkiew, Poland. The narrative, which moves between New York, pre-war and wartime Poland, and Jerusalem, is based on many hours of recorded interviews and covers Helen's life before, during, and after World War II.Although Wyshogrod's original intention was simply to record her mother's experiences, piecing the narrative together proved difficult: there were numerous gaps, things her mother could (or would) no longer remember, and other things her daughter just couldn't comprehend. To fill in these gaps, Wyshogrod draws from all the facets of her identity—writer, clinical psychologist, daughter, mother—in an attempt not only to understand her mother's experiences, but to find out why it is so important for her (and for us) to make that attempt in the first place.

Contents:

""Hiding Places""; ""Prologue""; ""Chapter One""; ""Chapter Two""; ""Chapter Three""; ""Chapter Four""; ""Chapter Five""; ""Chapter Six""; ""Chapter Seven""; ""Chapter Eight""; ""Chapter Nine""; ""Chapter Ten""; ""Chapter Eleven""; ""Chapter Twelve""; ""Chapter Thirteen""; ""Chapter Fourteen""; ""Chapter Fifteen""; ""Chapter Sixteen""; ""Chapter Seventeen""; ""Chapter Eighteen""; ""Chapter Nineteen""; ""Chapter Twenty""; ""Chapter Twenty-One""; ""Chapter Twenty-Two""; ""Chapter Twenty-Three""; ""Chapter Twenty-Four""; ""Chapter Twenty-Five""; ""Chapter Twenty-Six""; ""Chapter Twenty-Seven""

""Chapter Twenty-Eight""""Chapter Twenty-Nine""; ""Chapter Thirty""; ""Chapter Thirty-One""; ""Chapter Thirty-Two""; ""Epilogue""; ""Postscript""; ""Acknowledgments""

Notes:

"Excelsior Editions."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781438442457

1438442459

9781461905325

146190532X

OCLC:

784953305