Our Holocaust

by Amir Gutfreund

Book Overview

Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other "real" relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611091209
• ISBN13: 9781611091205
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Amazon Crossing
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Our Holocaust

Its hard to believe but this is a feel good Holocaust book. The author loves the characters in the book. Two children are trying to figure out the secrets the adult Holocaust survivors in their small town are hiding. The whole book is totally charming and life affirming even when painfull.

Thank you Amir Gutfreund

An absolute must-read. ". . . there isn't as much black and white in the world as we would like." p. 371. This book touched me deeply and I am grateful to Amir Gutfreund for taking the time to do this. An important work.

The Israeli-Jewish complex

If you want to understand the origin of the complexity of a nation built from pain and conflicting one, based on humanisem and neglecting some - you must read this one to.

Mesmerizing

Amir Gutfreund and Jessica Cohen, his gifted translator, wove the sunshine out of the pouring rain of the Shoah. Wondrous book, bewitching sentences. Verónica Albin

One of the best Israeli books written in the past years

Once you start reading it, you find yourself enchanted. Well written and not at all horrific. The subject is a difficult one, but the author makes you smile, laugh, cry, and feel human for better or worst. Amir G is one of the most promising authors in Israel! A must read book!