Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda
Teoksen When Grownups Play At War: A Child's Memoir tekijä
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1930
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Poland
Canada - Syntymäpaikka
- Poland
- Asuinpaikat
- Poland
Uzbek, USSR
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Koulutus
- (BA|Chemistry)
- Ammatit
- professor of chemistry, University of Quebec
- Organisaatiot
- Polish Jewish Heritage Foundation
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- 1
- Jäseniä
- 10
- Suosituimmuussija
- #908,816
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 4.0
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- ISBN:t
- 2
- Kielet
- 1
This book reminded me in many ways of Esther Hautzig's memoir of her family's wartime deportation to Siberia, The Endless Steppe, which I read as an adolescent. Like Hautzig, Ilona and her family struggle to find food and shelter in strange places, enduring hunger and cold, confronting prejudice, but also encountering help and community. Although the suffering recounted is real, and very acute, the reader is always aware that by removing themselves (or being removed, as the case may be) from areas of Nazi dominance, a far more terrible fate has been averted.
Perhaps it is unjust, but this creates a sense, almost of relief, in the reader, that this particular family didn't find itself passing through the gates of Auschwitz, or some similar place of horrors. However that may be, this was a fascinating story in its own right, and sadly, in a world with so many refugees, it could not be more topical.… (lisätietoja)