Looking for strangers: the true story of my hidden wartime childhood
TitleLooking for strangers: the true story of my hidden wartime childhood
Author
Call number940.5318092/1016
Object number11682
Place of publicationChicago, Illinois, United States
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionx,170p
MaterialBook
ISBN9780226058627
Description
Documents the author's fragmented early memories of being taken in by a Catholic family in Belgium during the Holocaust and then being given up to an orphanage until she was found and reclaimed by her mother. She tries to integrate her own memories with stories told to her by her mother. Meeting many people along the way she attempts to stitch many threads into a coherent story.