Hearing a different drummer : a Holocaust survivor's search for identity
TitreHearing a different drummer : a Holocaust survivor's search for identity
Auteur
Call number940.5318092/0840
N° d'objet06173
Lieu de publicationMacon, Georgia, United States
EditeurMercer University Press
Année de publication
2000
Paginationxiii, 235p.
MatérielLivre
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.