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An edition of Memory Fields (1993)

Memory fields

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Moving artfully and easily from past to present, from a child's perspective to an adult's, Shlomo Breznitz's many voices relate this poignant, gripping, and often terrifying memoir. Caught in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, Breznitz and his family moved from village to village until it became clear that there was no escaping the Nazis. Before they were sent to Auschwitz, however, Breznitz's parents persuaded the Sisters of Saint Vincent to take their two recently.

Converted children into the convent's orphanage. Shlomo - called Juri - was just six years old. Separated from his parents and from his sister, Judith (the nuns segregated the sexes, and communication between them was rarely allowed), Juri recounts his often devastating experiences with the other orphans, the nuns, his teacher and classmates at the village school, the prelate and the mother superior, and the Nazi officers who periodically visited the orphanage. He.

Describes his overwhelming feelings of isolation and loneliness, his persistent dread of being found out as a "stinking Jew" (constantly hiding his circumcision), his earnest determination to be a good Catholic, and the crushing sense of danger that loomed over him at every moment. Memory Fields, however, goes beyond its recollections of childhood. It speaks also for Breznitz the psychologist, as he explores the nature of cruelty and kindness, of stifling fear and.

Outstanding courage, of memory and the ways in which it shapes our lives. In the last chapter of the book, almost fifty years later Breznitz returns to Czechoslovakia and revisits the places so vivid in his memory, in hopes of finding the nuns who saved his and his sister's life. A stunning and evocative story, beautifully told.

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Knopf
Language
English
Pages
179

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Edition Notes

Issued also in Hebrew as: Śedot ha-zikaron.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
943.7/004924
Library of Congress
DS135.C97 B74 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 179 p. ;
Number of pages
179

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1715013M
Internet Archive
memoryfields00brez
ISBN 10
0679404031
LCCN
92017323
OCLC/WorldCat
25874133
LibraryThing
532129
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1371703

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Work ID
OL4290101W

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