- Informations sur l'album
- Mendel's Daughter (2006)
- Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir
- a
- USA
- Biographie
- 213712
- Lemelman, Martin
- Lemelman, Martin
- <N&B>
- 10/2007
- non coté
- Free Press
- Autre format
- 978-1-416-55221-5
- 240
- 06/04/2014 13:03:08 (maj 06/04/2014 17:24:40)
- Info édition : 2nd edition.
- Résumé: In 1989 Martin Lemelman videotaped his mother, Gusta, as she opened up about her childhood in 1930s Poland and her eventual escape from Nazi persecution. Mendel's Daughter, now in paperback and selected as one of the best books of 2006 by the Austin Chronicle, is Lemelman's loving transcription of his mother's harrowing testimony, bringing her narrative to life with his own powerful black-and-white drawings, interspersed with reproductions of actual photographs, documents and other relics from that era. The result is a wholly original, authentic and moving account of hope and survival in a time of despair. Gusta's story opens with a portrait of shtetl life, filled with homey images that evoke the richness of food and flowers, of family and friends and of Jewish tradition. Soon, however, Gusta's girlhood is cut short as her family experiences Hitler's rise, rumors of war, invasion, occupation, round-ups and pogroms, forcing Gusta into flight and hiding.
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