We were normal people reacting to abnormal circumstances, clashing with a world running amok. As a result the book is very intriguing to read and is very thought provoking. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. "[13] Because she's a woman, she's acutely aware that most of her readers will be female. The original version was well received. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered follows her during the ghettoization of her Austrian home, her trip to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz, and finally to Christianstadt. Grass, Günter Sharp and disjointed, this was an uneasy, but compelling read. Relatedly, Klueger’s background as a poet shines in the ways that she destabilizes the chronological backbone of her narrative by interjecting things that happened long before or long after key events in question. By the end of the book, I enjoyed it this my three stars. Klüger tells of qualifying for the university and attending classes at the University of Regensburg before immigrating to the United States.
I was wrong. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal.
. A remarkable story of survival against all odds. I agree with previous reviews that rate this book with the classics written by the likes of Eli Wiesel and Levi Primo! . Losing a best friend is an ingredient of life, but not fun.
I was wrong. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal.
. A remarkable story of survival against all odds. I agree with previous reviews that rate this book with the classics written by the likes of Eli Wiesel and Levi Primo! . Losing a best friend is an ingredient of life, but not fun.
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BORN: 1927, Free City of Danzig, Poland . We're glad to have you with us. I have mixed thoughts about this book. An inspirational story of survival. The work is divided into four sections and an epilogue. YOU LEARNED NOTHING THERE, AND LEAST OF ALL HUMANITY AND TOLERANCE. A young Jewish girl holding a false identity.
THEY RESENT THE RACISM TOWARD ARABS AND OTHER ETHICAL FAILINGS OF SOME JEWISH SURVIVORS OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS--"HOW CAN SOMEONE FROM AUSCHWITZ TALK LIKE THAT?" Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) by Ruth Kluger Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) I loved the frankness of her prose. "A startling, clear-eyed, and unflinching examination of growing up as a Jewish girl during the Holocaust… Courage and Grace (A Jewish Family's Holocaust True Survival Story During WW2 (Worl... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Note! A real updatey post to come eventually. It was the first of the *ss-organiz…, Stiles, Wally, C.D., B.B.A. Kluger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York, has emerged as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. We were normal people reacting to abnormal circumstances, clashing with a world running amok. As a result the book is very intriguing to read and is very thought provoking. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. "[13] Because she's a woman, she's acutely aware that most of her readers will be female. The original version was well received. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered follows her during the ghettoization of her Austrian home, her trip to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz, and finally to Christianstadt. Grass, Günter Sharp and disjointed, this was an uneasy, but compelling read. Relatedly, Klueger’s background as a poet shines in the ways that she destabilizes the chronological backbone of her narrative by interjecting things that happened long before or long after key events in question. By the end of the book, I enjoyed it this my three stars. Klüger tells of qualifying for the university and attending classes at the University of Regensburg before immigrating to the United States.
I was wrong. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal.
. A remarkable story of survival against all odds. I agree with previous reviews that rate this book with the classics written by the likes of Eli Wiesel and Levi Primo! . Losing a best friend is an ingredient of life, but not fun.
[9], Klüger distinguishes her memoir by often presenting her readers with a gender-specific narration of her experience. The style, the writer's personality is unapologetic and challenged me to re-think what I as an outsider thought/presumed to know about that period of history and the people who lived through it, as if she pointed her finger directly at me and other people who want to know her story, forcing us to answer why do we want to know her story? At the same time, it's stories like hers that make the Holocaust more human than any memorial or museum.