And Peace Never Came

And Peace Never Came

by Elisabeth M. Raab
And Peace Never Came

And Peace Never Came

by Elisabeth M. Raab

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Overview

“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath.” (from Chapter 5)

So begins the author’s sojourn, her search for freedom that begins with the chaotic barrenness in which she found herself after her liberation on Easter Sunday, April 1945, and takes her across several continents and half a lifetime.

Raab paints a brief yet moving picture of her idyllic life before her internment and the shock and the horrors of Auschwitz, but it is in the images of life after her liberation, that Raab imparts her most poignant story — a story told in a clear, almost sparse, always honest style, a story of the brutal, and, at times, the beautiful facts of human nature.

This book will appeal to a number of audiences — to readers interested in human nature under the most trying circumstances, to historians of World War II or Jewish history, to veterans and their families who lived through World War II, and to those interested in politics and the evils of political extremism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780889202924
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date: 01/02/1997
Series: Life Writing Series , #3
Pages: 205
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Elisabeth M. Raab was born in Hungary in 1921. In 1944 she was deported with her mother, father and daughter to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. She alone survived and was liberated by the Americans in 1945. She now resides with her family in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents for
And Peace Never Came by Elisabeth Raab

Acknowledgements

Five Years’ Passage

Prologue

Our Window

Nora

Who in Their Right Mind...?

The Narrowing Circle

Number 168

From the Ashes

What Remains

The Return

Alone

In Transit

Waiting

Farewell

Aftermath

The Visit–My Other Self

Historical Notes to And Peace Never Came | Marlene Kadar

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