Memory is Our Home: Loss and Remembering: Three Generations in Poland and Russia, 1917-1960s - Hardcover

Eibuszyc, Suzanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3838207327 ISBN 13: 9783838207322

Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

Memory Is Our Home is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, grew up during the interwar period and who, after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of Soviet Russia and Uzbekistan. Translated by her own daughter, interweaving her own recollections as her family made a new life in the shadows of the Holocaust in Communist Poland after the war and into the late 1960s, this book is a rich, living document, a riveting account of a vibrant young woman's courage and endurance. A forty-year recollection of love and loss, of hopes and dreams for a better world, it provides richly-textured accounts of the physical and emotional lives of Jews in Warsaw and of survival during World War II throughout Russia. This book, narrated in a compelling, unique voice through two generations, is the proverbial candle needed to keep memory alive.

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Review:

Rarely has a book been written that pencils so bleak a portrait of the Poland that had been cloaked in the secrecy of life under Germany's iron fist. Even for those who lived those years in the rest of occupied Europe, it presents an unfamiliar, stark, black-and-white vision of hell.--Rudy Rosenberg, author of And Somehow We Survive

This is an essential primary source for scholars and graduate students.--Dr. Joanna B. Michlic, Bristol University

A poignant chronicle of one woman's harrowing journey across the decades.--Marilyn J. Harran, Chapman University

Essential reading for all those interested in the fate of Polish Jews in the twentieth century.--Prof. Antony Polonsky, Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw

This memoir, however, is unusual. It is not only the result of a conversation between mother and daughter; it is also constructed in two voices. We learn about the past and the present, or more technically, about intergenerational transmission.--Dr. Dennis Klein

A young Jewish woman who faced the terrible events that shaped 20th century Polish Jewish existence and alone survived to recount a full life.--Prof. Kenneth Waltzer, Michigan State University

Unforgettable and highly recommended.--Prof. Matthew Feldman, Teesside University

Reminds us of a truth the Holocaust sadly confirmed: traumatic total loss creates an absence that can only be retained as memory.--Prof. Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania

For me personally, the memoir was particularly moving -- and relevant -- since Roma's story was so similar to my father's.--Prof. Arlene J. Stein, Rutgers University

A narrative from a generation that successfully escaped the Holocaust but endured its losses for the rest of their lives.--Prof. Dalia Ofer

About the Author:

Suzanna Eibuszyc received degrees from the City College of New York where she studied with Elie Wiesel and the University of California. She lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3838207327
• ISBN 13: 9783838207322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 2