An End to Childhood - New and Expanded Edition: New and Expanded Edition

by Miriam Akavia, Elie Wiesel (Foreword by), Michael P. McLeary (Translator), Jeanette Goldman (Translator)

Overview

This memoir, written as fiction, but based on fact, describes the fear-filled efforts of a pair of Polish adolescents, brother and sister, to survive in secrecy and constant anxiety in Lvov at a time when Jews were being rounded up and sent to the Ghetto - or worse. They have only their false identity papers, their few trusted contacts and their own wits to help them conceal their Jewish background and keep one step ahead of the German authorities. Miriam Akavia, who experienced at first hand similar terrors and anxieties, skillfully conveys the fluctuations in mood from the natural optimism and high spirits of youth to the painfully learned caution and dissembling forced upon them by their situation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853035145
Publisher:	Vallentine Mitchell
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	Library of Holocaust Testimonies
Edition description:	New and Expanded Edition
Pages:	171
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.60(d)