The listener : in the shadow of the Holocaust /
A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation. In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift, her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. Irene Oore's Jewish mother married a Gentile Polish officer, which allowed her to escape the death camps. But...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Regina, Saskatchewan :
University of Regina Press,
[2019].
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| Series: | Regina collection.
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| Summary: | A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation. In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift, her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. Irene Oore's Jewish mother married a Gentile Polish officer, which allowed her to escape the death camps. But constantly on the verge of starvation, she lived a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep her own mother and sister alive. Throughout the memoir, Oore reveals a certain ambivalence towards the gift bestowed upon her. The stories of fear, love and constant hunger traumatized her as a child. Now she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 142 pages : maps ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780889776531 0889776539 |