Hearing a different drummer : a Holocaust survivor's search for identity
TitleHearing a different drummer : a Holocaust survivor's search for identity
Author
Call number940.5318092/0840
Object number06173
Place of publicationMacon, Georgia, United States
PublisherMercer University Press
Year of publication
2000
Physical descriptionxiii, 235p.
MaterialBook
ISBN9780865546882
Description
Atlanta businessman and architect Benjamin Hirsch recounts his awakening identity as an observant Jew. While serving in the United States Army during the Korean War, Hirsch faced the ridiculousness of army life as well as the horror of war from a unique perspective, that of a child survivor of the Holocaust. He also found that as a Jew he was regarded as alien and as a man he must cope with being a soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. Memories of the Shoah are brought back by wartime experiences in Korea. Hirsch also used his position in the Army to get back to Germany and search for lost relatives.