Broken Silence: dialogues from the edge
TitleBroken Silence: dialogues from the edge
Author
Call number940.5318092/0008
Object number00081
Place of publicationToronto, Ontario, Canada
PublisherLester & Orpen Dennys
Year of publication
1984
Physical description203p.
MaterialBook
ISBN0886190827
Description
In Hungary during the war, Stein's mother, assimilated, with only marginal Jewish identity, decided to have her children convert to Catholicism in an attempt to save them. This memoir concerns the author's return to the Jewish people many years after the end of the war. The process of "reconstruction" is described through a series of dialogues with a torturer, a victim, a spectator, a survivor, and a boy - the author himself