Israel Stein
Auteur de Architecture of Survival: Holocaust Diaries (WW2 Memoirs Book 1)
Œuvres de Israel Stein
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 11
- Popularité
- #857,862
- Évaluation
- 4.4
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 1
I really liked these memoirs, and aside from a few typos, thought they were very well-written. However, the book could have really used some further annotation by the son. Mom's memoir describes her experience in the Vilna Ghetto with her husband and son, the husband's escape to Warsaw, her and her son's escape to Bialystok and their experiences there. It ends abruptly after a description of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto. At the time, her husband was still in Warsaw, and his memoir describes the liquidation of the ghetto there. I'm not sure where their son was during this period; the mom had written about placing him in hiding but I'm not sure if he was with her, or in a hiding place being cared for by others.
I finished the book feeling frustrated because I had no idea where, how and when the family reunited and how they all survived the war. It would have been really nice if the son had written a postscript or something to the book that would have explained those details.… (plus d'informations)