Broken Silence: dialogues from the edge
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Broken Silence: dialogues from the edge
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318092/0008
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]00081
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Toronto, Ontario, Canada
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Lester & Orpen Dennys
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1984
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]203p.
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0886190827
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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