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Although it has the epic sweep and emotional depth of a 19th-century novel, Diane Armstrong's absorbing family memoir centers around the 20th-century Holocaust that consumed the lives of six million European Jews. She begins with the dramatic moment in 1890 when grandfather Daniel Baldinger divorced his childless first wife because, the devout orthodox Jew explained, "if I can't doven in shule beside my sons, I won't have fulfilled my duty to God." Those sons and daughters (Daniel's second wife bore 11 children) came to maturity as the Nazis were exterminating Jews, often with the enthusiastic assistance of the Baldingers' Polish neighbors. Armstrong's father changed his name to Henryk Boguslawski, and her parents spent the war with baby Diane (born in 1939) pretending to be Catholics; their siblings employed other desperate tactics to escape the anti-Semites' grasp.
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Armstrong seamlessly weaves a narrative history of those terrible years with the first-person recollections of her elderly parents, aunts, and uncles. This mosaic is further enriched by the meditations of Diane and her cousins, who scattered after the war with their surviving parents to Canada, the United States, Israel, and Australia (where Armstrong still lives). Giving their children a Jewish identity poses a challenge for Diane and her equally secular husband, and the book closes movingly with their son's fiancée telling them she wishes to convert: "Your religion has continued for thousands of years, and so many Jews have died because of it," Susan tells her in-laws. "I don't want to be the one to break the continuity." Armstrong's memoir vividly conveys that continuity, even as it is threatened by political events and personal conflicts. Her skillful blending of vibrant individual voices across the generations makes this memoir a touching tribute to the healing powers of storytelling as well as to the unquenchable human spirit. --Wendy Smith
Diane Armstrong was born in Poland and emigrated to Australia with her parents in 1948. A freelance journalist, her work has been published in newspapers and magazines in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Holland, Hungary, Poland, New Zealand, and South Africa, and she has won a number of international prizes for her articles. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0091837138
- ISBN 13 9780091837136
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photographic (illustrator). First Edition. XVI, 592 pages, acknowledgements, author's note on Polish proper names, map of Poland in 1939, Baldinger/Spira Family Tree and Bratter/Goldman Family Tree, glossary and bibliography. Black coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with 38 black and white photographs. Black coloured boards with gilt writing to the back strip. Rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and book corners. Light browning to the text block edges. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a pair of hands holding a yellow Star of David, with white writing on the front panel and back strip. Rubbing and creasing to the top dustwrapper edge and there is a small nick to the top right-hand corner of the front dustwrapper corner. The history of the authors' family from Krakow, Poland in 1890 to the time of publication of the book. It follows not only the family of the author but also Polish Jews as a people. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Holocaust; Judaica; ISBN: 0091837138. ISBN/EAN: 9780091837136. Inventory No: 0105401. Seller Inventory # 0105401
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix 592 pages, illustrated, maps, bibliography, glossary. The pages are tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. "From the bestselling author of THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE, WINTER JOURNEY and NOCTURNE this remarkable true story begins in the Polish city of Krakow in 1890 and spans one hundred years and four continents. God blessed Lieba and the devout Jewish patriarch Daniel Baldinger with eleven children, and this richly textured portrait follows their lives down the decades, through the terrifying years of the Holocaust, to the present time. Lives that personify the struggles and hopes of their century. MOSAIC is compelling storytelling at its best: from the fascinating detail of Polish-Jewish culture and the rivalries and dramas of family life, to its moving account of lives torn apart by war and persecution, this is an extraordinary story of a family, and of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage." (Front flap). Seller Inventory # 020726
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