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No past tense : love and survival in the shadow of the Shoah / D.Z. Stone ; based on testimony by William and Katarina Salcer.
Van Pelt Library D804.195 .S76 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stone, D. Z., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kellner, Katarina.
- Salcer, William, 1924-2006.
- Salcer, William.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Czech Republic.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Biography.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Biographies.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Elstree ; Chicago, Illinois : Vallentine Mitchell, 2019.
- Summary:
- No Past Tense is the biography of Katarina Kellner and William Salcer, two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, respectively.
- Contents:
- Hitler on the radio: summer 1938
- Worried mothers: 1939
- Happy New Year: 1944
- Back home: 19 March 1944
- Into the ghetto: April 1944
- Kati meets Willi: April 1944
- Harsher reality: April 1944
- Spoiled little girl: June 1944
- Auschwitz: June-August 1944
- No escape: September-October 1944
- Canary girls: November 1944
- This is Mauthausen: November 1944-March 1945
- Walking to Czechoslovakia: March-May 1945
- Liberation: April 1945
- No-one home: June 1945
- Finding Lily: June 1945
- Family album: June 1945
- Give up the shiksa: July 1945
- Gardener's shed: August 1945
- Polka dot dress: August 1945
- Nice Jewish girl: August 1945
- In remembrance: August 1945
- Ghosts: August 1945
- Uncle Pavel: September 1945
- Marry me, or goodbye: October 1945
- Hakshara: February 1946
- Black hat with cherries: Summer 1946
- Jewish soldier: August 1946
- Atlit: August-November 1946
- We're here: November 1946-February 1947
- It's a girl: February-September 1947
- Too much beer: Fall 1947
- Up on the roof: November-December 1947
- Building tanks: December 1947-May 1948
- Testing: Summer 1948
- Water, Everywhere: Summer 1949
- What Next?: 1950-1952
- We'll Build You a Factory: 1953
- Crisis: 1954-1957
- Going Down: 1958-1959
- Europe to America: Winter-Spring 1960
- First year in America: 1960-1961
- Job hunt: 1961
- Plastic lace tablecloths: 1961-1964
- Naomi and the gypsy: Summer 1968
- Home sweet Plesivec: Summer 1968
- Jelsava and back: Summer 1968
- Young, single and free: 1975
- Wander years: 1977-1983
- Telling: 1996-1999
- The end: 2000-2001.
- Notes:
- "Based on testimony by William and Katarina Salcer."
- ISBN:
- 9781912676118
- 1912676117
- 9781912676101
- 1912676109
- OCLC:
- 1089577595
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