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Second Generation Voices

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Author : Alan L. Berger
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2001-06-01

Second Generation Voices written by Alan L. Berger and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-01 with History categories.

Heirs to the legacy of Auschwjtz, the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators have always been thought of as separated by fear and anger, mistrust and shame. This groundbreaking study provides a forum for expression in which each group reflects candidly upon the consuming burdens and challenges it has inherited. In these intensely personal and frequently dramatic pieces, understandable differences surface. The Jewish second generation is unified by a search for memory and family. Their German counterparts experience the opposite. Yet surprising common ground is revealed. Each group emerges out of households where, for vastly different reasons, the Holocaust was not mentioned. Each struggles to break this barrier of silence. Each has witnessed the continued survival of parents and must grapple with living in households haunted by denial. And each knows it is his or her charge to shape the Holocaust for future generations. To be sure, there is disagreement among the groups about the need for-or wisdom of-dialogue. Yet Second Generation Voices boldly engenders authentic grounds for discussion. Issues such as guilt, anger, religious faith, and accountability are explored in deeply felt poems, essays, and narratives. Jew and German alike speak openly of forming and affirming their own identities, reconnecting with roots, and working through their own "psychological Holocaust."

Children Of The Shadows

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Author : Kathy Grinblat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Children Of The Shadows written by Kathy Grinblat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child and what it meant to grow up in a home affected by the shadows of the Holocaust.

The Ones Who Remember

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Author : Rita Benn
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-04-12

The Ones Who Remember written by Rita Benn and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity? Sixteen authors reveal the challenges and gifts of living with the aftermath of their parents’ inconceivable experiences during the Holocaust. The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all. Several of the contributors’ children share interpretations of the continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain.

Never Turn Left

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Author : Louis Girifalco
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-12-16

Never Turn Left written by Louis Girifalco and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-16 with categories.

The future is rushing to meet me and I know that I will realize only a fraction of what I am and can be. I am beginning to truly absorb the fact of mortality and I don't like it. There are so many more things I can do; that I want to do. And there is much that I would like to pass on, So I am offering this collection of essays and stories, thoughts and ideas which, taken together define a life of transition between two worlds. Only after reading what I have written, did I discover that the central core of my reality is that I am a child of the second generation. I was born between two worlds and was an integral part of two worlds. I wanted to become fully "American," to transcend the old world ideas, customs, prejudices and accents; above all, the accents, which marked us as so different. "Diversity" was not celebrated during my childhood as it is now. So we did our best to fit in, to become like the others and to deny our roots. At the same time, our culture demanded respect for our elders, for their opinions and for their values and we could not escape this. Somehow, the children of the second generation reconciled this duality and grew to be true Americans; the strangers who absorb the American ideas of personal freedom and opportunity, while retaining the best of the old ways. In that uniquely American way, we have struggled and we have triumphed.

Second Generation

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Author : Eleanor Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-01

Second Generation written by Eleanor Sontag and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

I have been consumed with thoughts about the Holocaust ever since I was a little girl and I have decided to write about my experiences as a child of Holocaust survivors both as a catharsis and as a memorial to my parents' memories. I would like to note at the outset of this memoir that until very recently, I always felt that the story I want to tell here was not my story at all, it belonged to my parents what happened affected them profoundly, but surely, or so I thought, not me. I am American born born in 1943 and brought up in the tiny village of Homer in Upstate New York. I have been fortunate enough to have lived a relatively peaceful life which is light-years apart from the experience of my parents. But I have come to realize that my parents' stories are, indeed, my stories. Their identity is, indeed, my identity in very profound ways. They survived the Holocaust. I am a second generation survivor. As a child, I lived under the pall of the Holocaust. My parents had been thrown out of Germany. That's exactly the way my Dad sneered the words he was "thrown out of Germany by Hitler." When speaking of Hitler with our relatives, he always referred to him as that "Schweinehund," the nastiest epithet he could conjure up translation, "pig dog." The English translation does not do justice to the scorn in his voice. When he used those words, his entire body revealed his contempt. Fortunately for our family, my parents were able to escape Germany in 1939 shortly before the mass murders began. My parents rarely talked about their experiences, but it pervaded the air I breathed from the day I was born in a hospital in Cortland, New York, three miles from Homer, New York, three thousand miles from where the catastrophe of the Holocaust took place. Whenever my parents would get together with family or friends, their voices would be hushed as they would talk about things that I was not supposed to hear because I was too young. I learned about the Holocaust the way most children learn about taboo things by listening in stairwells or by pretending to be asleep as my parents had conversations in German in hushed voices. In this way, the story of the Holocaust seeped into my consciousness subliminally and effortlessly.

The Ones Who Remember

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Author : Rita Benn
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-04-12

Breaking The Silence

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Author : Merilyn Moos
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-02-04

Breaking The Silence written by Merilyn Moos and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-04 with History categories.

There has been extensive research into the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors who immigrated to the US and Israel. But very little work in this space has looked at children whose parents fled Nazi persecution before the Holocaust. Even less attention has been paid to those who ended up in Britain from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. What was the impact on this second generation? How have the lives of these ordinary people been shaped by their parents’ dislocation? Using a series of interviews with members of the second generation, Breaking the Silence is a qualitative, interdisciplinary exploration how their lives were shaped by their parents escape from persecution. It offers an insight into how the exile and fear of persecution of the parents and the deaths/murder of unknown relatives has left this generation both bereft of memories and haunted by the past.

Never Turn Left

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Author : Louis A. Girifalco
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-01-27

Never Turn Left written by Louis A. Girifalco and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-27 with Family & Relationships categories.

The future is rushing to meet me, and I know that I will realize only a fraction of what I am and can be. I am beginning to truly absorb the fact of mortality, and I don't like it. There are so many more things I can do; that I want to do. And there is much that I would like to pass on, especially to my children and grandchildren. So I am writing down a few of my memories. But this is not a traditional memoir. It is a collection of essays and stories, thoughts and ideas which, taken together, define a life of transition between two worlds.

Children Of The Holocaust

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Author : Helen Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1988-10-01

Children Of The Holocaust written by Helen Epstein and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-10-01 with History categories.

"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

Let S Hear Their Voices

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Author : Iraida H. López
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2019-12-01

Let S Hear Their Voices written by Iraida H. López and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with Literary Collections categories.

Let's Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban American writers of the "second generation"—writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents or have a mixed ethnic background. Called "ABCs" (American-Born Cubans) or "AmeriCubans," these writers experiment with different formal approaches and lace their work with Cuban Spanish to give voice to hybrid identities and cultural legacies within the contemporary multicultural United States. An introduction by Iraida H. López identifies key tropes in their poetry, prose, and drama, and provides an overview of Cuban American literature since the 1960s. With both original and previously published pieces by award-winning authors—including President Obama's Second Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco—the volume makes a welcome contribution to the fields of Latinx and American literature, as well as critical discussions across disciplines about the intersections of latinidad with race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Second Generation Voices

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