The Daughter Who Sold Her Mother: A Biographical Memoir

This is the story of my mother's life, woven from fragments of her memories as she told them to me over the years. Hers was a life caught in the turbulent currents of the twentieth century in which Communism, Zionism, Fascism and anti-Semitism all played their part. It was a life scarred deeply by the Second World War. This book stems from a desire to reassure her that her experiences as a young Jewish mother fighting to save the life of her new-born infant (myself) in Nazi-occupied Poland will not be forgotten. Mother's story, told and filtered through her daughter's eyes, inevitably becomes the daughter's story as well, particularly in the final, post-war section of the book when the daughter is no longer just a listener but a participant in the events described here. For her the writing of this book opened a way to explore the complex legacy of 'the second generation', of being born to parents who were Holocaust survivors.

• | Author: Irena Powell
• | Publisher: AuthorHouse
• | Publication Date: Mar 18, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 642 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1504944356
• | ISBN-13: 9781504944359