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The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust (The Regina Collection, 13)

By Irene Oore

Book information

Publisher
University of Regina Press
ISBN
9780889776531, 9780889776548, 0889776539
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
250 kB (255732 bytes)
Pages
160\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-29 09:36:42

Description

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. During the Holocaust, Irene Oore’s mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity. Those years found her constantly on the run and on the verge of starvation, living a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep herself and her family alive. Throughout the memoir, Oore reveals a certain ambivalence towards the gift bestowed upon her. The stories of fear, love, and constant hunger traumatised her as a child. Now, she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive.

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