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Waltzing with the enemy : a mother and daughter confront the aftermath of the Holocaust

Title: Waltzing with the enemy : a mother and daughter confront the aftermath of the Holocaust / by Rasia Kliot and Helen Mitsios.
Author: Kliot, Rasia.
Publication: Jerusalem : Penina Press, ©2011.

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Additional Authors

Mitsios, Helen.

Description

287 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust.

Alternative Title

A mother and daughter confront the aftermath of the Holocaust

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
Personal Narrative
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.

Contents

Rasia's Preface: A Bridge of Air -- Helen's Preface: A World of Ghosts -- Part One: Rasi's Story -- Forbidden Love -- A Young Girl -- Early Years in Vilnius -- The Gathering Storm -- The Russians in Our Home -- My Father -- Sister Teresa -- The Ghetto -- The Trial -- Irene's Secret: My First Fake ID -- Jozefowa: Early Spring 1942 -- A Passport to Life? -- My Second Chance -- Lusia and the Trap -- What My Mother Told Me Happened in Ostrowice, 1942 -- My New Name, Zoska, and My Father's Shawl -- The Open Window in Vilnius and Then My LIfe on the Farm with Janucz -- A Room Full of Mattresses: The Ghetto on Szpitalna St. -- My Sister's Name Is Zofia -- Kaunas and My New Job at the German Newspaper -- Winter 1942 -- My LIfe Sold for a Liter of Milk -- Waltzing With the Enemy -- The Farmhand -- Gradual Liquidation of the Ghetto -- My Mother and Brother at the Farm in Becoupe -- On the Train from Vilnius to Vienna -- Vienna 1944-45 -- A New Window of Freedom Opens Up in Vienna -- A Short Visit to the Young State of Israel and a New Start in Montreal -- A Jew in Public -- Faced With My Own Contradictions -- Manhattan: 2009 -- Part Two: Helen's Story -- First Thing First -- Welcome to Phoenix -- In Our House We Were Still Living in Europe -- Greek Orthodox Father, Jewish Mother, Catholic Daughter -- I Am a Jew -- Christmas -- Stories My Mother Told Me -- What Do You Know About Being Jewish? -- On The Long, Winding Road to New York -- The New Jerusalem -- Symbiosis and Separation -- "The Holocaust Is Not Your Problem" -- Dr. Masterson -- Zayt Gezunt -- Be Well -- Secondary Shame -- What Is Family? -- Like an Anthropologist in Tennessee -- Kleyne Pekelach -- Small Packages -- Yom Kippur -- Praying With Strangers at a Grave -- Our Vilnius -- New Roads to Old Places: My Trip to Vilnius -- My Grandfather's Scarf -- Living in the Present, Juggling the Past -- Photo Gallery

ISBN

9781936068210
1936068214

LCCN

2012426050

OCLC

ocn713188304
713188304
SCSB-1614557

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library