Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated

Rubin, Agi, Greenspan, Henry

ISBN 10: 1557788618 / ISBN 13: 9781557788610

Published by Paragon House, 2006

About this Item

Looks at the memories of the events themselves, and also how those memories have grown, faded, and been "edited" over an entire lifetime. This volume presents Greenspan's probing of the testimonies. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264. . 2006. Paperback. . . . .

Seller Inventory # V9781557788610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated
• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557788618
• ISBN 13: 9781557788610
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Reflections is a book of memories, but it is equally a book about memory. Speaking of herself as well as other Holocaust survivors, Agi Rubin notes:

 

   We survivors are a bundle of contradictions.  We push away the past, and we are constantly drawn back to it.  When we are here, we are also there.  And when we are there, we are also here. 

 

“Survivors,” Agi tells us, “are jugglers. Life goes on, death goes on, and survivors themselves go on—somewhere in between.”

What is it like to live within such contradictions?  While most survivor memoirs end at liberation, Reflections follows the fate of Holocaust memories over the course of an entire life. Agi describes in detail her initial awakening and the journey home, being a young survivor in the giddy limbo of postwar Europe, recreating lives and families in the United States, responding to the unanticipated surge of interest in the Holocaust in recent years. Throughout, the inner dialogue with memory deepens.  “New experiences reflect old ones,” says Agi. “They put them in a different light, or a different darkness.”  These reflections are the story this book tells about Auschwitz, memory, and a life recreated. 

About the Author

Agi Rubin is a survivor of Auschwitz and other camps. She is also a wife, mother, and grandmother.

Henry Greenspan is a psychologist and playwright at the University of Michigan. Agi and Hank have been close friends for more than twenty-five years.