Memory is our Home: Loss and Remembering: Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s (Edition Noema), by Suzanna Eibuszyc
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"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.Translated by her own daughter, interweaving her own recollections as her family made a new life in the shadows of the Holocaust in Communist Poland after the war and into the late 1960s, this book is a rich, living document, a riveting account of a vibrant young woman`s courage and endurance.A forty-year recollection of love and loss, of hopes and dreams for a better world, it provides richly-textured accounts of the physical and emotional lives of Jews in Warsaw and of survival during World War II throughout Russia. This book, narrated in a compelling, unique voice through two generations, is the proverbial candle needed to keep memory alive.
Memory is our Home: Loss and Remembering: Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s (Edition Noema), by Suzanna Eibuszyc - Published on: 2015-03-01
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Memory is our Home: Loss and Remembering: Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s (Edition Noema), by Suzanna Eibuszyc Review Antony Polonsky. Professor, Albert Abramson ofHolocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Chief historian of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. "This moving double memoir of a mother anddaughter, based partly on the mother's diary and partly on herconversations with her daughter describes the mother's life in pre-warWarsaw, how she was able to survive the war in the Soviet Union and hersubsequent life in Poland until the family's forced emigration in thewake of the 'anti-Zionist campaign of 1968. It is essential reading forall those interested in the fate of Polish Jews in the twentiethcentury."Marcy Dermansky. Author of novel Bad Marie a Barnes and Noble Fall Discover Great New Writers pick. Time Magazine pronounced Bad Marie "irresistible." "Deliciously wicked," proclaimed Slate. "Bad-ass," said Esquire Magazine, naming Bad Marie one of the top novels of 2010. Marcy's first novel Twins was a New York Times Editors Choice Pick: "A brainy, emotionally sophisticatedbildungsroman-for-two." "This book is such a tremendousaccomplishment. The small details of your mother's survival constantlyamazed me. I find that the more I think I know about the Holocaust, themore that there is still to learn". Powerful in its simplicity, thepages are all about the smallest things - the details about findingshelter, surviving cold and hunger, and how much a person can take. Theinterplay of the 2G voice is also powerful, with a new perspective thatis also simple and straightforward in the telling of survival. It saysso much, too, about a decision to bring daughters, the 3G to Poland. The importance of not forgetting, or ensuring that the Jewish legacysurvives, that the Jewish culture and contribution to Poland are noterased.Dr. Dennis B. Klein, Professor of History, Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Kean University, NJ. "Seen and Unseen" excerpt from Foreword to Memory Is Our Home By Dennis Klein. This memoir, however, is unusual. It is not only the result of aconversation between mother and daughter; it is also constructed in twovoices. We learn about the past and the present, or more technically,about intergenerational transmission. I am drawn to the mother's directaccount of her experience in Poland between the two world wars, the newrealities she encountered, and her life-changing disillusionment thatresulted from an exposure to aggressive behavior that came as a complete shock to her and her generation of Jews who were looking forward to anaffirmative life. "Home," as in the title of this memoir, would have tomaterialize where it could: in survivors' memories.Dr. Joanna B. Michlic. Dept. of Historical Studies,Bristol University, UK. The HBI Director, Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust, Brandeis, MA, US. This is an essentialprimary source for scholars and graduate students of European WomenStudies, East European Jewish History, and the Holocaust. RomaEibuszyc's memoir is extremely powerful and throws new light on thedaily life of young Jewish women in prewar Poland. This is also aninsightful memoir to study the faith of Jews, and especially youngJewish women in the Soviet Union during the WWII, a subject matter thatonly recently has caught the attention of scholars of the Holocaust andEast European Jewish History.Matthew Feldman. Professor of History andco-director of the Center for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascistStudies at Teesside University, UK An immensely moving narrativeof one Jewish family's life in Poland, both before and after NaziGermany's indelible murderousness. Spanning the middle decades of the20th century and centering upon Warsaw - the intellectual anddemographic capital of Jewry in Europe before its annihilation byHitler's Third Reich - this presents not just a single, detailednarrative, but two. Roma's diary and her daughter Suzanna's memoir areskillfully interwoven across this richly textured account, itself setagainst the backdrop of three Poland's: quasi-liberal between the wars;Nazi-occupied; and then as part of the USSR's Warsaw Pact. Memory is our Home is a heartfelt testimony to individual acts of survival and memory under an occupation of unparalleled rapacity. Although the daily,scarcely-believable brutality of Nazi occupation makes for emotionallychallenging reading, this book is ultimately a story of hope andresolve, not despair. Suzanna Eibuszyc's account will appeal to a widerange of academics (especially of the Shoah, of modern Poland, and ofJewish Studies), but its intended audience is, surely, much wider thanthis. Memory is our Home is aimed at anyone wanting a better, morepersonal understanding of sacrifice and survival in the Warsaw Ghettoand wartime Russia - let alone the searing memories afterwards which,like European Jewry as a whole during World War Two, refused to give inand be forgotten. Equally unforgettable and highly recommended.
Rarely has a book been written that pencils so bleak a portrait of the Poland that had been cloaked in the secrecy of life under Germany's iron fist. Even for those who lived those years in the rest of occupied Europe, it presents an unfamiliar, stark, black-and-white vision of hell.
(Rudy Rosenberg, author of And Somehow We Survive)
This is an essential primary source for scholars and graduate students.
(Dr. Joanna B. Michlic, Bristol University)
A poignant chronicle of one woman's harrowing journey across the decades.
(Marilyn J. Harran, Chapman University)
Essential reading for all those interested in the fate of Polish Jews in the twentieth century.
(Prof. Antony Polonsky, Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw)
This memoir, however, is unusual. It is not only the result of a conversation between mother and daughter; it is also constructed in two voices. We learn about the past and the present, or more technically, about intergenerational transmission.
(Dr. Dennis Klein)
A young Jewish woman who faced the terrible events that shaped 20th century Polish Jewish existence and alone survived to recount a full life.
(Prof. Kenneth Waltzer, Michigan State University)
Unforgettable and highly recommended.
(Prof. Matthew Feldman, Teesside University)
Reminds us of a truth the Holocaust sadly confirmed: traumatic total loss creates an absence that can only be retained as memory.
(Prof. Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)
For me personally, the memoir was particularly moving ― and relevant ― since Roma's story was so similar to my father's.
(Prof. Arlene J. Stein, Rutgers University)
A narrative from a generation that successfully escaped the Holocaust but endured its losses for the rest of their lives.
(Prof. Dalia Ofer)
Sweet memories as well as the haunting details of victimization and overcoming enormous obstacles for three generations of Jews in Europe and then the US.
(Prof. Elaine Leeder, Sonoma State University)
Reading a memoir like this tells the story of so many people so that reading it can help heal a lot generations who carry this unbelievable tragedy in their lives.
(Prof. Shatit Shoshi, Bar Ilan University)
A deeply, moving and historically rich account of a Holocaust story common to many survivors but still little known and documented.
(Prof. Atina Grossmann, author of Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany)
A vividly told story of Polish Jews who suffered the oppression of both Hitler and Stalin.
(Prof. Myrna Goldenberg, Montgomery College)
I congratulate Suzanna Eibuszyc for her work to inspire all the new generations to come.
(Inge Auerbacher, Holocaust survivor, author, and inspirational speaker)
This is a haunting and brave book, it will both move and educate readers.
(Janice Eidus, author of The War of the Rosens and The Last Jewish)
It highlights the notions of sacrifice, determination, loyalty and love in various forms. Reads like a Jewish version of Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt.
(Aaron Elster, author of I Still See Her Haunting Eyes)
A most compelling and illuminating memoir. In her straightforward style, the author encompasses life in its totality. It is highly recommended.
(Judy Weissenberg Cohen, editor of Women and the Holocaust)
It gives the impression of Roma being the sane center in the middle of millions of ants scurrying about trying to survive in the face of incredible odds.
(Rudy Rosenberg, author of And Somehow We Survive)
Will live in our hearts, reviving the spirit of those who suffered.
(Rabbi Barbara Aiello)
Roma felt strongly that she had to pass on her legacy, and I believe likewise that it is beshert (meant to be) before these memories fade completely from their consciousness.
(Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal)
The memoir resonates deeply in everyone whose life has been touched by events beyond their control.
(Rita B. Ross, author of Running from Home)
It's one of the most moving pieces that I've had the honor of sharing on The Jewish Writing Project site.
(Bruce Black, founder of The Jewish Writing Project)
History is about what a child feels growing up in the poverty of Post-World War I Poland. It is about what it is like to feel fear the day the Germans invaded Poland in 1939.
(Dr. John Z. Guzlowski, Eastern Illinois University)
From the Author In America my path crossed with ElieWiesel, at CCNY, he wasone of my professors, taking his classes and reading his writings it's when I realizedthat the psychological impacts of the Holocaust on survivors are real and areenormous. This was also thefirst time that I understood the importance of the stories my mother passed onto me when I was a child. I told Wiesel about my mother's experiences and hetold me my mother has to write it all down, future generations must know it.
From the Inside Flap Hadassah-BrandeisInstitute Award, 2012, "Your mother's memoir will become an importantsource in the historical investigations of social history of EasternEuropean Jewish women and Eastern European Jewish family in the years1918-1968."
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. "Memory is Our Home" is an Invitation to Remember What we can Never Forget --in each of our lives. It takes courage. . . By Arthur Miller As a Holocaust educator (non-historian), my eyes are constantly searching for new works of scholarship which shed new light and deeper understanding in areas of investigation already covered by pre-eminent scholars in their respective fields of expertise. For this reason I always find the genre of Holocaust memoirs especially meaningful and profoundly poignant. Grappling with the Holocaust on an intellectual level and grasping the Holocaust experience on a personal ("being there") level are literally two different realties. I first discovered this work on a Holocaust FB page that piqued my interest. It rarely happens that a book so moves me that I feel an overwhelming and irresistible need to contact the author and have any lingering uncertainties clarified and explained. Such was certainly the case with this haunting memoir and sensitive author. The author's mother read Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in Polish translation as a young girl in pre-war Warsaw and when the shocking German invasion occurred on that fateful day, she instinctively went into auto pilot by escaping to the East. . . and further East and further East. . . It seems nearly every day was a struggle for survival and a piece of bread. While the various ethnic groups were fighting and betraying each other, it seems everyone was hunting for Jews. For me personally, reading this memoir was a harrowing and anguishing experience that I will forever be extremely grateful to both the author's traumatized mother -- for painfully and painstakingly unearthing her traumatic memories and committing them to paper towards the end of her life, and to the author herself -- for courageously finding the inner strength to fulfill her commitment and promise to her beloved mother to preserve the non-ending nightmare in print for all the world to see. In between everything, Ellie Wiesel was a kindly guiding figure who encouraged Suzanna Eibuszyc with eternal words of inspiration: "The story must be told. Silence is never an option." Now I am here to tell you: "This story must be read".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Long suffering Polish Jewish community finally destroyed under a communist regime By Jan Ledóchowski This a touching account of life for relatively poor members of the Jewish community in Warsaw before the Second World War and the horrendous experience of being deported into the depths of Russia during the War, which ironically saved them from almost certain death under the German Holocaust. They were then made to feel very unwelcome on their return to a Poland which was now under communist rule, culminating in the anti-semitic campaign of the 1960s, when they finally left. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what it is like to be a minority being treated considerably worse than the rest of the nation under successive totalitarian regimes. Discrimination is not just an unacceptable idea. Find out what it is like when you suffer from it yourself.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I highly suggest reading this memoir and personal narrative (translated ... By Kalli Meisler I highly suggest reading this memoir and personal narrative (translated from Polish to English). Unlike other holocaust nonfictions, this focus on the Polish-Russian and Uzbekistan community sheds new light to the vacuum of information available during the war, and the plight to reunite with the Poles once the Russians were no longer providing safety! I I have never read another memoir about the Polish immigrants/Jews that fled Hitler/Nazis forUzbekistan (and joined the Buharian community). As the first book I've read re: the blending of Ashkenazi Judaism with the Yemenite mountain tribes, I'm intrigued to find out MORE. I hope more families tell their stories. I'm thankful I was asked to read the first edition- before the release date!!
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