Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland, Christopher R. Browning, Richard S. Hollander, and Nechama Tec, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xi + 285 pp., 28.00
It is hard to find a book that surprises us with new details about the Holocaust. This collection is such a book, adding significant detail to the individual stories that constitute the Holocaust and tracing difficult and often heartbreaking decisions made by U.S. wartime immigration officials. The...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-102 |
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| Summary: | It is hard to find a book that surprises us with new details about the Holocaust. This collection is such a book, adding significant detail to the individual stories that constitute the Holocaust and tracing difficult and often heartbreaking decisions made by U.S. wartime immigration officials. The story is contained in a Jewish family's letters from Poland, U.S. government documents, and explanatory essays by the editors., The discovery of the correspondence came after a fatal 1986 car crash killed the parents of Richard Hollander, a former newspaper and television reporter who subsequently discovered that his father had carefully saved but hidden hundreds of letters from the family he had left behind in Poland. Included in the collection were also letters and documents from U.S. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp010 |