What On Earth Am I Doing Here? A Story of Surviving and of Visits to the Scenes of the Crime
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ISBN:
0-7414-4635-9
©2008
Price:
$10.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 150 pages
Category/Subject:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Biographical account of surviving the Holocaust in Hungary, visits in Hungary and Germany after years of boycotting them, and of battling trauma and a sense of guilt for having survived.
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Abstract:
What on Earth Am I Doing Here? is the real-life story of a child and his brother escaping from the ghetto in a provincial town in Hungary, thus surviving the Holocaust, and his visits in Hungary and Germany after some thirty years of boycotting them. The narrative takes the reader from the two boys hiding in a room as Anne Frank did, managing with fake identity cards during the siege of Budapest along with their mother, then to snippets from his adult life, battling with trauma and a sense for guilt of having survived.
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Customer Reviews
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08/22/2008
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Reviewer:
Stanley Hoffmann
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I was moved and shocked by your book—moved by the wonderful, understated way in which you describe the horrible events that you had to endure, shocked by the sufferings inflicted on you and your family. It is really a superb memoir, written with so much feeling and, despite the nature of the events, generosity and humor. The same fate befell millions of people, and yet every story is unique, and I learned a great deal about Hungary and Slovakia from your account—and about you, of course. Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University
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