Description |
xiii, 339 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 20 cm |
Summary |
"A love story and a detective story, a study of history and of memory, this spellbinding work explores a son's confrontation with the terror of hs parents' childhood. Moving from Poland and Germany to Jerusalem and Melbourne, Mark Raphael Baker travels across the silence of fifty years, through the gates of Auschwitz, and into a dark bunker where a little girl hides in fear. As he returns to the scenes of his parents' captivity, he struggles to unveil the mystery of their survival. The fiftieth Gate is a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, finds light."--cover |
Analysis |
Baker family |
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Holocaust survivors Australia |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland |
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Jews Poland Biography |
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Jews, Polish Australia Biography |
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Holocaust, Jewish, 1939 1945 Personal Accounts |
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World War, 1939 1945 Jews |
Notes |
At head of title: A journey through memory |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-339) |
Subject |
Baker, Mark Raphael, 1959-
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Baker family.
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Children of Holocaust survivors -- Australia -- Biography.
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Children of Holocaust survivors.
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Holocaust survivors -- Australia.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews -- Australia -- Biography.
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Jews -- Poland -- Biography.
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Jews, Polish -- Australia -- Biography.
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Memory.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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LC no. |
97149463 |
ISBN |
0732258049 |
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