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A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy - Enrico Lamet
A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy
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Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides... show more
Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother's valiant efforts to make a home for him.In a style as original as his story, the author vividly recalls a dark time yet imbues his recollections with humor, humanity, and wit. Very few Holocaust memoirs address the plight of Jews sent into internal exile in Mussolini's Italy. Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait, one you will not soon forget.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781440511264 (1440511268)
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Pages no: 322
Edition language: English
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Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it
4.0 A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy
The reading of any book on the Holocaust strikes fear in my heart, and this one is no different, except that I also came away from it with even more respect for those people who managed to survive the inhuman cruelty, deprivation and madness of that time. I was not aware, before reading this book, o...
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NO SPOILERS!!!I finished this book this afternoon. I liked it, but I am very surprised that no one has classified this as a young adult book! It is written in such a manner that a boy around ten would highly appreciated what the author as a child lived through. He loved taking apart machines and con...
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