Saving the tremors of past lives : a cross-generational Holocaust memoir / Regina Grol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grol, Regina.

Series:

Jews of Poland

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--Poland--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Poland.

Pinczuk, Masza.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Jewish community of the Polish border town of Brześć (Brisk in Yiddish), which had numbered almost 30,000 people, was wiped out during the Holocaust, with only about 10 of its members surviving. One of them was Masza Pinczuk, who escaped from the Brześć ghetto on the eve of its liquidation on Oct.15, 1942. Her future husband succeeded in escaping from the Warsaw ghetto. They were the sole survivors of their respective families, and in this volume their daughter, Regina Grol, shares their story and meditates on the legacy of the Holocaust, exploring the lingering impact of the Holocaust on the following generations. Based on interviews and letters, and checked against historical facts, the book includes supporting documents and photographs. It also contains an account of the author's "internal flanerie" (to use Walter Benjamin's term), i.e., a retrospective and introspective look at her own life as a child of Holocaust survivors.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: The Knight on the White Horse

Chapter Two: Bialystok

Chapter Three: From Bialystok to Dubno

Chapter Four: Further Migrations: From Dubno to Katowice to Haifa

Chapter Five: (Temporary) Return to Warsaw

Chapter Six: 1968; or, America! America!

Chapter Seven: Dreams

Chapter Eight: Dwelling in a Name

Chapter Nine: My Father: The Mystery Man

Chapter Ten: Mother and Her Family

Chapter Eleven: Danuta

Chapter Twelve: On Graves, Burial Rites, and the Search for Identity

Chapter Thirteen: Poems

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 25, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61811-257-0

OCLC:

872636557