Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Simon, Andrea, 1945-

Title Bashert : a granddaughter's Holocaust quest / Andrea Simon
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2002

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Series Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
Contents Bashert -- Protest -- Connection -- Disappearance -- Longing -- Collaboration -- Isolation -- Annihilation -- Response -- Atonement -- Survival
Summary Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and bigger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her sojourn, a quest for truth, gave her tragic answers. On a group tour of ancestral Jewish homeland sites that had been crushed in the Holocaust, she makes a riveting detour to her grandmother's village of Volchin, in what is now Belarus, where the last known family members had lived. There, she followed the trail of the death march taken by the village Jews to the place of their slaughter by Nazis and Nazi collaborators in the fall of 1942. During the s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- Belarus -- Valozhyn
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Valozhyn
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Persecutions
Judenvernichtung
Roman
SUBJECT Valozhyn (Belarus) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Belarus -- Valozhyn
Belarus
Juden.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021695026
ISBN 9781604735925
1604735929
1578064813
9781578064816
1283434547
9781283434546
9786613434548
661343454X
9781628467475
1628467479