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Helen Fremont was raised Roman Catholic in America, only to discover in adulthood that her parents were Jews who had survived the Holocaust. Delving into the extraordinary secrets that held her family together in a bond of silence for more than forty years, she recounts with heartbreaking clarity and candor a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the eloquence of truth.
When Helen was small, her mother taught her the sign of the cross in six languages. Theirs was the tender conspiracy of a little girl and her mother at bedtime, protected by a God who could respond in any language. What she didn't understand was that she was being equipped with proof of her Catholicism, a hedge against persecution, real or imagined.
It wasn't until adulthood that she began to comprehend the terrible irony of her mother's gesture. She knew that her father had spent six years in the Siberian Gulag, surviving nearly on will alone; that her mother's elder sister, fearless and proud, had married an Italian Fascist whose title and connections helped them to survive during the war. But their faith, their legacy as Jews, was kept hidden for years.
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Children of Holocaust survivors, United States, Biography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Poland, Personal narratives, Large type books, Literatura norteamericana, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866, Biografías, Holocaust, Nachkomme, Overlevenden, Uberlebender, Judenvernichtung, New York Times reviewed, Family, Holocaust survivors, Families, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narrativesPeople
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After Long Silence: A Woman's Search for Her Family's Secret Identity
2000, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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After Long Silence: A Memoir
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After Long Silence: A Woman's Search for Her Family's Secret Identity
1999, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish--Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen Fremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond of silence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the resonance of truth.
Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets.
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