The story of a Jewish boy /
"'This is the face of a boy whose youth was taken from him, who doesnʼt know anymore how to cry or laugh, that life has crushed under the inhuman weight of cruel reality. In this photograph you see the mask of a face; if that mask were lifted you would see a mind troubled by life that too...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Italian. |
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New York, NY :
Bordighera Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Crossings (New York, N.Y.) ;
35. |
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| Summary: | "'This is the face of a boy whose youth was taken from him, who doesnʼt know anymore how to cry or laugh, that life has crushed under the inhuman weight of cruel reality. In this photograph you see the mask of a face; if that mask were lifted you would see a mind troubled by life that too cruelly torments your son,' Leopold Berman wrote his father in a postcard sent shortly after leaving a refugee camp. 'The Story of a Jewish Boy' recounts the horrors and fleeting hopes of a boy and his family trying to survive the final days of World War II in Italy"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781599541921 1599541920 |