Not Just a Survivor: a portrait of my mother - Paperback
by Rochy Miller
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rochy MillerTheme:Ethnic Orientation/Jewish, Topical/HolocaustPublish date:6/16/2020Pages:280
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Rae LeibowitzISBN-13:9780994228680ISBN-10:0994228686UPC:9780994228680Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Jewish, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.359Product ID:SCXP2EH1D6
The camp is getting fuller and fuller. I talk to the Sanitater - an SS guard, who collects the sick from all the other camps and brings them here - and he tells me that when there are over a thousand inmates, they are sent away. And I see that the camp is filling up and filling up and filling up. So I decided - I am not going away with them to Auschwitz. I have to get out of here!
My mother was a Holocaust survivor. She embodied the Holocaust. She experienced it physically, lived it emotionally and studied it intellectually. She spent her entire life trying to make logical sense of an inexplicable trauma that ruled her life and decimated her past.
But being a Survivor was never all of who she was. She was so much more - somebody truly special who survived and enriched people's lives not because of the Holocaust, but despite it.
Filled with the many stories of love, loss, hope, friendship, and food, told and retold - some by her, and some about her - this book creates a composite of the warm, intelligent, and amazing person that she was.
These are her stories.
My mother was a Holocaust survivor. She embodied the Holocaust. She experienced it physically, lived it emotionally and studied it intellectually. She spent her entire life trying to make logical sense of an inexplicable trauma that ruled her life and decimated her past.
But being a Survivor was never all of who she was. She was so much more - somebody truly special who survived and enriched people's lives not because of the Holocaust, but despite it.
Filled with the many stories of love, loss, hope, friendship, and food, told and retold - some by her, and some about her - this book creates a composite of the warm, intelligent, and amazing person that she was.
These are her stories.
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Rae LeibowitzISBN-13:9780994228680ISBN-10:0994228686UPC:9780994228680Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Jewish, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.359Product ID:SCXP2EH1D6
Miller, Rochy: - "Rochy Miller is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor - Lea Leibowitz. This memoire, her mother's story, has been a lifetime in the making. Rochy is a retired medical doctor, who, like her mother, holds a swathe of other qualifications, and dabbles a little in each. She has studied creative writing, and holds both Medical Journalism and Master of Journalism degrees. She has published numerous short stories and articles, as well as a series of Text Books in the field of Aesthetics Education. Originally from South Africa, she now lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband - but spends much of her time travelling to Florida, USA, where her two young granddaughters live. When not travelling, she can be found pursuing her other favourite creative pursuits: painting and toy-making, and - like her mother - baking up a storm in her kitchen."
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