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- Out of Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
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The stories in Out of Chaos forms a profound testament to lost and found lives that are translated into compelling reading. The collection illuminates brief or elongated moments, fragments of memory and experience, what the great Holocaust writer Ida Fink called “a scrap of time.” In all, the anthology expresses survivors’ memories and reactions to a wide range of experiences as they survived in so many European settings, from Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, and France.
The writers recall being on the run between different countries, escaping over mountains, hiding and even sometimes forgetting their Jewish identities in convents and rescuers’ homes and hovels, basements and attics. Some were left on their own; others found themselves embroiled in rescuer family conflicts. Some writers chose to write story clusters, each one capturing a moment or incident and often disconnected by memory or temporal and spatial divides.
The writers recall being on the run between different countries, escaping over mountains, hiding and even sometimes forgetting their Jewish identities in convents and rescuers’ homes and hovels, basements and attics. Some were left on their own; others found themselves embroiled in rescuer family conflicts. Some writers chose to write story clusters, each one capturing a moment or incident and often disconnected by memory or temporal and spatial divides.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-7
- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xx
- Introduction
- pp. xxi-xxiv
- Child Survivors
- pp. 3-6
- Part 1. In the Beginning
- pp. 7-8
- The Megillah: 1937
- pp. 12-13
- My Grandfather’s Watch
- pp. 14-15
- The School Lessons
- pp. 16-18
- Part 2. On the Run
- pp. 19-20
- The Marketplace
- pp. 21-22
- Shema Yisrael
- pp. 23-27
- A Holocaust Composite
- pp. 28-36
- Zamboni’s List
- pp. 45-51
- The Rocky Shores of Marseille: 1942
- pp. 52-77
- Part 3. Hidden with Parents: Belgium
- pp. 57-58
- Reminiscences of Being Hidden
- pp. 59-66
- Boom 1943, and Blood
- pp. 67-68
- Part 4. Hidden with Rescuers
- pp. 69-70
- The Declaration
- pp. 72-77
- Who Am I This Time?
- pp. 81-88
- To Annette, the Center Point
- pp. 89-91
- A Child Remembers
- pp. 92-100
- Born-Again Jew
- pp. 101-106
- Taste of Liberation
- pp. 107-108
- Happiness and Sadness
- pp. 109-134
- The Borrowed Saint
- pp. 110-113
- Armand Can Do Anything
- pp. 114-118
- The Christmas Gift
- pp. 128-140
- Part 5. Hiding in Plain Sight
- pp. 141-142
- From Radomsko to Chicago
- pp. 143-156
- Pretending to Be a Pole
- pp. 157-166
- Part 6. In Concentration Camps
- pp. 167-168
- The First Night
- pp. 169-194
- A Child’s Confusion
- pp. 170-195
- The Transit Camp
- pp. 171-196
- “One Out of One Hundred ”
- pp. 176-186
- Part 7. Aftermath
- pp. 187-188
- Fall 1944 Rixensart
- pp. 189-214
- Fading Memories
- pp. 194-195
- The Haul in the Wall
- pp. 196-199
- Disillusionment
- pp. 200-201
- Bond with Rain
- pp. 202-208
- A Passion to Tell
- pp. 209-219
- Untitled Poem
- pp. 222-247
- Part 8. Lost and Found
- pp. 223-224
- The Story of Adam Paluch
- pp. 225-232
- An Imagined Conversation, or Perhaps
- pp. 240-246
- Extermination and Concentration Camps
- pp. 275-282
- Contributors
- pp. 285-293
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810166615
Related ISBN(s)
9780810129115
MARC Record
OCLC
867740158
Pages
317
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013