Motherland: A Daughter's Journey to Reclaim Her Past
Description
A poignant mother-daughter journey explores the afterlife of the Holocaust in a story of love, loss, and the persistence of memory In 1938, just before they were killed by the Nazis, Freida and Siegmund Westerfeld sent their twelve-year-old daughter Edith to live with relatives in Chicago. Edith escaped the death camps but was left profoundly adrift, cut off from culture, tradition, her entire identity. For decades she shut away her memories, until she realized that the void of her past was consuming her and her family. Then, with her daughter Fern Schumer Chapman--herself a pregnant mothe...
ISBN(s)
0670881058, 9780670881055
