Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community - Brossura

Richmond, Theo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679758232 ISBN 13: 9780679758235

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996

Riassunto

A documentary filmmaker reconstructs the history of the Polish village from which his parents came, a town destroyed by the Nazis in 1939, through archival material and the reminiscences of survivors from across the globe. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Polish town of Konin vanished in the wake of Nazi occupation. Twenty-five years later, Theo Richmond set out to find what he could about that vanished world. He traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel, tracing survivors and sifting through archives and the stories of those he interviewed. A project he thought would take six months took seven years. Finally he confronted the Konin of today. Interweaving past and present, Konin tells the story of one community--how it began, how it flourished, and how it ended--and in the process re-creates the precariousness, anguish and necessity of human memory.
"A fascinating memorial to a lost community and the people who lived there."--The New York Times Book Review
"One reads [it] sometimes with a smile...always on the edge of tears--as if it were the most gripping adventure story."--Elie Wiesel, New York Newsday

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679758232
• ISBN 13: 9780679758235
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 572