Our Holocaust
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611091209 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The spare accounts of unspeakable brutality, suffering, and sacrifice stay with you, and so do the big questions. The savagery of Nazi criminals is documented; why have so many never been punished? And what about the officials who were only doing their jobs? As the narrator fetches his kid from kindergarten today, he wonders about the people on the street: Who could be collaborator, informer, loyal soldier, killer, rescuer? With the arbitrariness of the survival stories, there is the inescapable truth that ordinary people made it happen. All rights reserved. Why the panic when someone knocks at the door? Why does crazy Uncle Hirsch ask obsessively, "O
His honors include the Sapir Prize, the Buchman Prize from the Yad Vashem Institute, the Sami Rohr Choice Award from the Jewish Book Council in 2007, the Prime Minister’s Prize for Creative Works in 2013, and the Ramat-Gan Prize for Literature in 2015 for his novel The Legend of Bruno and Adela.. Amir Gutfreund was a multi-award-winning Israeli novelist. Born in Haifa in 1963, he studied applied mathematics at the Technion, joined the Israeli Air F
A must read! Israeli prize winner Amir Gutfreund debuts with an astonishing chronicle of two young children's abilities and inabilities to understand what happened "over there" in Our Holocaust.The author takes the stage as a fictional character along with Effi, the only other child on Katznelson Street in Kiryat Haim. As members of the second-and-a-half generation to the Shoah (the Holocaust), they try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together--from the bits and pieces. Thank you Amir Gutfreund An absolute must-read. "there isn't as much black and white in the world as we would like." p. 371. This book touched me deeply and I am grateful to Amir Gutfreund for taking the time to do this. An important work.. "Best "Second-and-a-half" Generation Book Ever" according to Ally. If Elie Wiesel's "Night," is fiction, then "Our Holocaust," by Amir Gutfreund fits into the same category. I have waited a long time for a book as well-written as this one, on a subject that is never, ever funny. All one can hope for as a reader is to get an unsentimentalized picture that makes one consider a fuller perspective on the subject. Gutfreund does this, and more.Gutfreund re-creates an entire neighborhood in Israel from his childhood, as it was
The intrepid pair won't let this stop them, and their quest for knowledge results in adventures both funny and alarming, as they try to unearth their neighbors' stories. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There. Amir and Effi collected relatives. As Amir grows up, his obsession with understanding the Holocaust remains with him, and finally Old Enough to know, the unforgettable cast of characters that populate his world open their hearts, souls, and pasts to him Translated by Jessica Cohen from the Hebrew Shoah Sh