Tenuous ThreadsOne of the Lucky Ones

Judy Abrams

ISBN 10: 1897470282 / ISBN 13: 9781897470282

Published by Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, 2011

About this Item

As Eva Marx writes in her memoir, One of the Lucky Ones, Almost 1.6 million children were living in Europe at the start of World War I. By the end of the war, less than 500,000 had survived. She and Judy Abrams, author of>Tenuous Threads, were born just six months apart--Judy in Hungary and Eva in Czechoslovakia--two years before World War I began. Their childhoods were irrevocably marked by the Holocaust and their memoirs are evocative accounts of this fragmented and fearful period in their young lives. Separated at times from their parents, the two authors poignantly describe the insecurities they lived with as hidden children and, as adults, explore the role that memory, innocence and, in hindsight, knowledge, has played in their lives.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tenuous ThreadsOne of the Lucky Ones
• Publisher: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897470282
• ISBN 13: 9781897470282
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

As Eva Marx writes in her memoir, One of the Lucky Ones, "Almost 1.6 million children were living in Europe at the start of World War II. By the end of the war, less than 500,000 had survived." She and Judy Abrams, author of Tenuous Threads, were born just six months apart―Judy in Hungary and Eva in Czechoslovakia―two years before World War II began. Their childhoods were irrevocably marked by the Holocaust and their memoirs are evocative accounts of this fragmented and fearful period in their young lives. Separated at times from their parents, the two authors poignantly describe the insecurities they lived with as hidden children and, as adults, explore the role that memory, innocence and, in hindsight, knowledge, has played in their lives.

About the Author

Judy Abrams, born in Budapest, Hungary on April 28, 1937, immigrated to Montreal in 1949, where she later taught French. She taught at the International School in New York City from 1972 until her retirement in 2002. She has two sons and one grandson and divides her time between Montreal and New York. In 2009, she co-edited Remember Us: A Collection of Memories from the Hungarian Hidden Children of the Holocaust.