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Author Eilati, Shalom, 1933-

Title Crossing the river / Shalom Eilati ; translated from Hebrew by Vern Lenz
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents How it began -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter -- The quiet season/childhood in the ghetto -- Another Fall and Winter -- Spring -- Escape -- On green hill -- In the village -- Liberation -- A new year -- Second year/seven journeys
Summary Crossing the River is a personal memoir-and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania's occupation-first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians-it is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine. The adult survivor, while recalling the terrorized child that he was and how he then perceived the adult world, also takes stock of his present life. Th
Notes "Published in cooperation with Yad Vashem, Jerusalem."
"Originally published in Hebrew as La-ḥatsot et ha-nahar by Carmel/Yad Vashem, 1999"--Title page verso
English
Subject Eilati, Shalom, 1933-
SUBJECT Eilati, Shalom, 1933- fast
Subject Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Personal narratives
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Jews
SUBJECT Kaunas (Lithuania) -- Biography
Subject Lithuania -- Kaunas
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author Lenz, Vern
Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah.
LC no. 2008018605
ISBN 9780817386825
0817386823
9780817381073
0817381074
Other Titles La-ḥatsot et ha-nahar. English