Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma

by Federica K. Clementi and Federica K Clementi

Book Overview

In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-human" qualities of those who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis, show that the Holocaust cannot be used to neatly segregate lives into the categories of before and after. Clementi's discussions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611684765
• ISBN13: 9781611684766
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"