Tenuous Threads/One of the Lucky Ones (Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs) - Softcover

Abrams, Judy; Marx, Eva Felsenburg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897470282 ISBN 13: 9781897470282

Publisher: Azrieli Fndtn, 2011

Synopsis

As Eva Marx writes in her memoir, One of the Lucky Ones, "Almost 1.6 million children were living in Europe at the start of World War II. By the end of the war, less than 500,000 had survived." She and Judy Abrams, author of Tenuous Threads, were born just six months apartā??Judy in Hungary and Eva in Czechoslovakiaā??two years before World War II began. Their childhoods were irrevocably marked by the Holocaust and their memoirs are evocative accounts of this fragmented and fearful period in their young lives. Separated at times from their parents, the two authors poignantly describe the insecurities they lived with as hidden children and, as adults, explore the role that memory, innocence and, in hindsight, knowledge, has played in their lives.

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About the Author

Judy Abrams, born in Budapest, Hungary on April 28, 1937, immigrated to Montreal in 1949, where she later taught French. She taught at the International School in New York City from 1972 until her retirement in 2002. She has two sons and one grandson and divides her time between Montreal and New York. In 2009, she co-edited Remember Us: A Collection of Memories from the Hungarian Hidden Children of the Holocaust.Eva Marx was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on October 21, 1937. Her family left Communist Czechoslovakia in 1949 and also immigrated to Montreal, where she later became an elementary school teacher. Eva has two children and four grandchildren. She and her husband, retired Quebec Superior Court Justice Herbert Marx, live in Montreal.

From the Back Cover

Jewish, hiding, Nazi, WWII, concentration camp, Europe

Edition details

• Publisher: Azrieli Fndtn
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897470282
• ISBN 13: 9781897470282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216