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    612-822-4611

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Tamara Tracz - Three Books

Tamara Tracz - Three Books

Tracz, Tamara

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ISBN10: 191022104X
ISBN13: 9781910221044
Publisher: Anomie Pub
Published: Jun 19 2015
Pages: 216
Language: English
Three Books by Tamara Tracz surveys generations of a Jewish family through emigration, loss, memory gaps, and personal fear, revealing how storytelling itself shapes identity across time and space.

Three Books by Tamara Tracz is a very special three-hardback-volume slipcased book. It is, first and foremost, a story that follows several generations of a family as their lives unfold in various cities, countries, and continents during the course of the twentieth century. It is a story with a cast of characters, some strong, some exceptional, some familiar, some curious. It is a story of births and deaths, of lives led and of the forces that shape them.

The family in Three Books is a Jewish Family, and their story is one of emigration and persecution that was profoundly affected by the Holocaust. It is a story that is shared with the stories of many countless thousands of other families - of taking flight from the Nazi regime, of German forces arriving in towns and villages and searching out the Jewish inhabitants, of summary executions and mass graves. It is a story of branches of the family destroyed, and of the survival of others. It is as distressing, disillusioning, and disheartening a story as one might fear to read of the plight of the Jews last century.

But Three Books is not written in the usual form of family biography, and is not only the story of this family's history. It is also a story about stories, about the passing on of information between generations, and between different branches of a family over time. It is a story about the impossibility of ever being able to tell a complete or truly objective family history. It is a story of fragments and recollections, of oral histories and letters sent, of trying to piece things together and to fill in gaps. Perhaps just as importantly, it acknowledges the absence of information, or the chances of ever being able to know certain things that transpired, and how this can shape the directions of subsequent generations. The dark, gaping holes of knowledge were often deliberately left unspoken by those who were once in a position to reveal the details.

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