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The listener : in the shadow of the Holocaust / Irene Oore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oore, Irène, 1948- author.
- Series:
- Regina collection ; 13.
- Regina collection ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oore, Irène, 1948-.
- Oore, Irène.
- Knopf, Stefania.
- Children of Holocaust survivors--Poland--Biography.
- Children of Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Poland--Biography.
- Jews.
- Poland--Biography.
- Poland.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation. In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. Irene Oore's Jewish mother married a Gentile Polish officer, which allowed her to escape the death camps. But constantly on the verge of starvation, she lived a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep her own mother and sister alive. Throughout the memoir, Oore reveals a certain ambivalence towards the gift bestowed upon her. The stories of fear, love, and constant hunger traumatised her as a child. Now she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive. Irene Oore is the co-author of Marie-Claire Blais: An Annotated Bibliography. Born in Łódź, Poland, she immigrated to Israel as a child and is now a professor of French at Dalhousie University in Halifax."--.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- The Gift
- Longing
- StarvationGod
- The Promise
- The Double Bind
- Death Womb
- Alchemy
- Voices
- Words
- Her Story: The Beginning
- Bomb Shelters
- The Train
- Before the Warsaw Ghetto
- Getto Warszawskie, pazdziernik 1940 (Warsaw Ghetto, October 1940)
- More HungerGod
- Trzynastka (Number 13)
- Wife of an Officer
- Umschlagplatz
- The Escape
- The Good Look
- Stories from the Aryan Side
- False Names, Hiding, and Death
- The Little Boy
- Kenkarta
- Blackmailed (Szantazowana)
- Poniewierka (Wandering/Vagrancy)
- A. K. (Armia Krajowa) and A. L. (Armia Ludowa)
- May 1943
- The Maid
- Factory Worker
- On the Run
- odz
- Postlude
- Glossary
- Dramatis Personae
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- The Regina Collection
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780889776555
- 0889776555
- 9780889776548
- 0889776547
- OCLC:
- 1100115957
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