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We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

Cassedy, Ellen

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Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0803230125
ISBN13: 9780803230125
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Mar 1 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
Awards: IndieFab awards
Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the Jerusalem of the North. As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How does a nation--how do successor generations, moral beings--overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in We Are Here, one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family's place in it.

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