The Lost: A search for six of six million
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780007251933
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Pages
528
Subject
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine.; Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- -- Family. ; Jews -- Ukraine -- Biography. ; Jews -- United States -- Biography.
Abstract
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic-part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work-that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust-an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates.
Number of Copies
1
