Memory is our Home.
Memory is Our Home' is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who grew up in Warsaw before and during World War I and who, after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of Soviet Russia and Uzbekistan.Transl...
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Columbia University Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- ""Seen and Unseen"" A foreword to Memory Is Our Home; Contents; Introduction: Suzanna's Story; Part I Warsaw, Poland, April 1917-November 1939; CHAPTER ONE; Suzanna Fear of Holidays; CHAPTER TWO; Suzanna My Mother in New York; CHAPTER THREE; Suzanna My Aunt Pola; CHAPTER FOUR; Suzanna The Missing Photographs; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; Suzanna Leaving the Old World; CHAPTER SEVEN; Suzanna My First Day of School; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; Suzanna A Young Priest; CHAPTER TEN; Suzanna Restoring Our Roots; CHAPTER ELEVEN; Suzanna Inherited Memories
- Part II Eastern Poland, Białystok, Saratov Russia, Uzbekistan, November 1939-March 1946, Poland June 1946, and Communist Poland into the late 1960s.CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; Suzanna My Father's Family; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; Suzanna My Father; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; Suzanna My War Hero; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; Suzanna The Past and the Present; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; Suzanna The Way We Lived; CHAPTER NINETEEN; Suzanna Raised in Poland; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO; Suzanna Living with Fear; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE; Suzanna Epilogue
- OUR ROOTS IN WARSAW, POLAND ON MY MOTHER'S FATHER'S SIDEOUR ROOTS IN ŁÓDŹ, POLAND ON MY FATHER'S SIDE; MAPS AND CALENDAR OF EVENTS; RECOMMENDED BOOKS; Acknowledgments
