Troubled Memory
Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
Seiten
2019
|
Second Edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5186-6 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5186-6 (ISBN)
Tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Troubled Memory is a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness.
This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto as a group, the Skoreckis evaded deportation to Treblinka by posing as Aryans. The family eventually made their way to New Orleans, where they became part of a vibrant Jewish community. Lawrence Powell traces their dramatic odyssey and explores the events that eventually triggered Anne Skorecki Levy's brave decision to honor the suffering of the past by confronting the recurring specter of racist hatred.
This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto as a group, the Skoreckis evaded deportation to Treblinka by posing as Aryans. The family eventually made their way to New Orleans, where they became part of a vibrant Jewish community. Lawrence Powell traces their dramatic odyssey and explores the events that eventually triggered Anne Skorecki Levy's brave decision to honor the suffering of the past by confronting the recurring specter of racist hatred.
Lawrence N. Powell is professor emeritus of history at Tulane University and a founding member of the Louisiana Coalition against Racism and Nazism.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 36 halftones, 6 maps, 2 graphs |
| Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 213 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 909 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4696-5186-6 / 1469651866 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4696-5186-6 / 9781469651866 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Deutschland 1933 bis 1945
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
S. Fischer (Verlag)
CHF 47,60
ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager
Buch | Hardcover (2024)
Kösel (Verlag)
CHF 30,80
