Hearing a different drummer : a Holocaust survivor's search for identity
TitoloHearing a different drummer : a Holocaust survivor's search for identity
Autore
Call number940.5318092/0840
Numero oggetto06173
Luogo di pubblicazioneMacon, Georgia, United States
EditoreMercer University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2000
Paginazionexiii, 235p.
MaterialeBook
ISBN9780865546882
Descrizione
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.