Anna Salton Eisen, Aaron Eisen

Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

In Pillar of Salt, Anna Salmon Eisen's father breaks a lifetime of silence about the Holocaust as they journey together to the small Polish town he lived in during Nazi occupation, visit his childhood home, return to the ghetto where he experienced his first selection and said his final farewell to his parents before they were sent in a boxcar to a death camp. They then travel across the Polish countryside checkered with concentration camps and Holocaust memorials. This book differs from other second-generation memoirs because the author was able, at her father's side, to understand her legacy and help him heal from the traumatic past, including saying the Jewish prayer of Kaddish with him the place where his parents were killed in a gas chamber. Anna then returns to her life with a new understanding of her identity shaped under the shadow of the Holocaust.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mandel Vilar Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781942134824
• ISBN-10: 1942134827
• Artikelnr.: 62191507

Autorenporträt

Anna Salton Eisen grew up in a home where her parents¿ Holocaust experiences were a well-kept secret. She later moved to Texas where she became active in the Jewish community as a founding member of the first synagogue in her area. Serving as a docent for the Dallas Holocaust Museum and an interviewer for the Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Salton Eisen continued to search for information about her family¿s survival and destruction in the Holocaust. In 2001, she co-authored with her father ¿The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir.¿ Salton Eisen is also the subject of a forthcoming documentary about her father¿s life. She now conducts extensive research into the genealogy of her family and has discovered many original documents which record her father¿s concentration camp experience. Salton Eisen and her family reside in Westlake, Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Prologue Part 1: America Fragments of Childhood Lucjan Salzman A
Secret Education Teenage Insecurities Creeping Nazis Jewish Lessons
American Values Lending a Hand Two Weeks' Notice Part 2: Poland Warsaw
Kraków Auschwitz Rzeszów Tyczyn Tomaszów Lubelski Belzec Part 3:
Interconnections Making Adjustments The 23rd Psalm Parachuting In Your
Huddled Masses A Providential Call Epilogue Acknowledgments