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My City of Dreams

Lisa Gruenberg

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Description:In this carefully researched and hauntingly written second-generation Holocaust memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder. In dreamlike sequences, she weaves known facts of the lives of those lost into tableaus of imagined family dinners, conversations and leisure activities set in the Vienna landscape. She especially focuses on her Aunt Mia, who disappeared into Germany in 1941 when she was just fifteen years old. She embodies Mia as she walks in her shoes, sees with her eyes, and speaks with her voice. Using primary source archival materials, photographs, family letters and memoirs, her father's writing, genealogy research, and the tales he told her long ago, Gruenberg weaves multiple storylines together. These flights into the past are presented within the framework of Gruenberg’s own family, her husband and daughters, and her elderly father, who escaped from Vienna in 1939 and shared few of his more harrowing memories with her. Trauma and the feelings of guilt often described in Holocaust survivors is reflected in this memoir, also the burden shared by so many of their children and grandchildren. At the same time, this tale is one of lightness and finding balance in all of these difficulties and trials. At the center of this memoir stands the author’s ability to look at the truth unflinchingly, including the truths apparent in herself. She shares her insights in all their nakedness, starkness and, yes, hilarity. This together with the author’s luminous prose, make My City of Dreams an important landmark in 21st century testimony of the Holocaust.”My City of Dreams is a Holocaust tale, but it is also very much the modern-day story of the relationship between one daughter and her father, about how trauma travels down through the generations, and about how we find meaning in our lives.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with My City of Dreams. To get started finding My City of Dreams, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In this carefully researched and hauntingly written second-generation Holocaust memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder. In dreamlike sequences, she weaves known facts of the lives of those lost into tableaus of imagined family dinners, conversations and leisure activities set in the Vienna landscape. She especially focuses on her Aunt Mia, who disappeared into Germany in 1941 when she was just fifteen years old. She embodies Mia as she walks in her shoes, sees with her eyes, and speaks with her voice. Using primary source archival materials, photographs, family letters and memoirs, her father's writing, genealogy research, and the tales he told her long ago, Gruenberg weaves multiple storylines together. These flights into the past are presented within the framework of Gruenberg’s own family, her husband and daughters, and her elderly father, who escaped from Vienna in 1939 and shared few of his more harrowing memories with her. Trauma and the feelings of guilt often described in Holocaust survivors is reflected in this memoir, also the burden shared by so many of their children and grandchildren. At the same time, this tale is one of lightness and finding balance in all of these difficulties and trials. At the center of this memoir stands the author’s ability to look at the truth unflinchingly, including the truths apparent in herself. She shares her insights in all their nakedness, starkness and, yes, hilarity. This together with the author’s luminous prose, make My City of Dreams an important landmark in 21st century testimony of the Holocaust.”My City of Dreams is a Holocaust tale, but it is also very much the modern-day story of the relationship between one daughter and her father, about how trauma travels down through the generations, and about how we find meaning in our lives.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with My City of Dreams. To get started finding My City of Dreams, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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