Lives Lived and Lost : : East European History Before, During, and After World War II as Experienced by an Anthropologist and Her Mother / / Kaja Finkler, Golda Finkler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Finkler, Kaja,; Finkler, Golda,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother’s and daughter’s separate perspectives of their experiences before, during, and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transforma...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Prologue
• PART I. IN MY MOTHER’S VOICE
• Chapter 1. My Childhood and Youth: In the House of My Grandparents
• Chapter 2. The War Begins
• Chapter 3. Working in a Slave Labor Ammunition Factory
• Chapter 4. Working in a Slave Labor Factory in Germany: Liberation and Return to Chaos
• PART II. IN MY MOTHER’S VOICE
• Chapter 5. On Being a Refugee in the Land of Gold
• PART III. IN MY VOICE
• Chapter 6. A Child-Adult Remembers Home, War, Loss, and Liberation
• Chapter 7. The Child Becomes an Adult
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Mother’s World and Our Family before World War II
• Appendix 2. Hasidism
• APPENDIX 3. Genealogy
• APPENDIX 4. Prayers and Calendar of Jewish Holidays Reconstructed by Golda Finkler in Hasag-Leipzig
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index