Details

Subjects:

Children of Holocaust survivors -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Biography.
Daughters -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Biography.
Jews, Polish -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Biography.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Summary:

Picking up a family's broken pieces and restoring them in a narrative that seals the gaps with memory.

Contents:

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Transliteration of Yiddish
1 My Father's Visit, 1983
2 Paris Is the Most Beautiful City in the World
3 Wood
4 The Forest of Beech Trees
5 Immigrants
6 "Send Away the Mother Bird"
7 My Sister's Visit, Montreal, 1980
8 Poppyseed Cake
9 "He Will Turn the Children toward the Parents," 1990
10 The Other Elizabeth
11 Shevirah (Shattering), November 1993
12 It's Lively in the Shtetl, December 1993
13 Mame-Loshen (Mother Tongue), 1995
14 April 1996
15 "Honour Thy Father and Mother," June 1996
16 Blindsight, 2000
17 Spring 1997
18 Rachamim (Compassion), 1997
Epilogue: Yizkor
Dertsaylung fun a geratevete/Account of a Rescued Person by Chaja Zylberberg Wajnberg
Until the Outbreak of the War
Bitter Days for the Jews of Demblin
The Roundup
I Jumped through the Window
Good People Help Us
Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Local notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Other format:

Print version: Wajnberg, Elizabeth Sheymes

ISBN:

9780773596955
9780773544598

OCLC:

884616618