Shadows of Survival

A Child's Memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto

Kristine Rosenthal Keese (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2016
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9781618115096 (ISBN)

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After sixty years, Kristine Keese is finally able to share the memories of her years spent in the Warsaw Ghetto as a small child. She owes her survival, and that of her young uncle, to the striking resourcefulness of her mother. The story emerges as vividly as if it happened yesterday, full of details that only a child would notice. Although the the events of the Warsaw Ghetto and the fate of its victims has been described many times, Keese's story is exceptional, as it is told through the eyes of, not a victim, but a child engaged with her daily reality focused on survival.

Kristine Keese, born to a middle class Jewish family in Poland, was incarcerated as an eight year old child in the Warsaw Ghetto. After the war, Keese went on to attend Cornell University where she studied Philosophy and later received an ED.D from Harvard University, USA. She worked at the Social Science Research Center at the University of Michigan where she had also been an instructor in the Slavic Languages Department, and later taught at Northeastern University's Department of Education. Most recently, Keese taught in the Sociology Department at Brandeis University. She left academic life to live and work on a fishing boat with her husband, along the coast of Florida and in Alaska, where she was an evaluator for the then newly-instituted Native education program under a grant from the Office of Education. She and her husband also spent a year on the North coast of Haiti attempting to organize a fishing cooperative. Currently they own and manage an organic cranberry bog in Massachusetts.

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: My Personal War

Chapter 2: 1939: The Clouds of War

Chapter 3: November 1940–July 1942: The Ghetto, First Stages

Chapter 4: The Ghetto, Last Stages

Chapter 5: The End of Safety

Chapter 6: Jasio’s Story and Leaving the Ghetto

Chapter 7: Times of High Anxiety

Chapter 8: August–August 1944: The Warsaw Uprising

Chapter 9: Leaving Warsaw

Chapter 10: Waiting for the War to End

Chapter 11: Spring 1945: Return to the Convent

Chapter 12: Living with Genia in Lodz

Afterword: What is Left???

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Jews of Poland
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781618115096 / 9781618115096
Zustand	Neuware