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Our Only Hope: Eddie's Holocaust Story and the Weisz Family Correspondence

Our Only Hope: Eddie's Holocaust Story and the Weisz Family Correspondence

Garber, Zev
Pickus, Keith H.

Paperback

Series: Studies in the Shoah, Book 30

Historical FiguresLetters & EssaysHolocaust

ISBN10: 0761839208
ISBN13: 9780761839200
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
Our Only Hope is based on correspondence between Eddie Weisz, a German Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, and his family (father, mother, and brother) who remained behind, first in Berlin and then Prague. Like many German Jewish families, Eddie's parents sent their eldest child to America hoping that he could pave the way for the rest of the family to follow. The story is a deeply personal account of how the Nazi phenomenon affected a single family. It gives voice to victims of the Holocaust, people whose experiences are typically told through the eyes of survivors and perpetrators. Through this narrative, Our Only Hope illuminates an ironic and tragic dualism: the steady deterioration of life's circumstances for the Weisz family that is left behind, countered by the transformation of Eddie Weisz into an independent adult and American citizen.

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