And peace never came

And peace never came

by Raab, Elisabeth M.

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""It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath."" (from Chapter 5) So begins the author's sojourn, her search for freedom that …

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  • Full title :And peace never came / Elisabeth M. Raab.

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""It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath."" (from Chapter 5) So begins the author's sojourn, her search for freedom that begins with the chaotic barrenness in which she found herself after her liberatio.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1997.

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  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) : : illustrations, map

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0585160953, 9780585160955, 0889206406, 9780889206403, 1554587700, 9781554587704, 1280925035, 9781280925030, 9786610925032, 6610925038
  • oclc:ocm44962970
  • LC Classification:DS135.H93
  • Dewey Decimal:940.53

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Five Years' Passage; Prologue; Our Window; Nora; Who in Their Right Mind ...?; The Narrowing Circle; Number 168; From the Ashes; What Remains; The Return; Alone; In Transit; Waiting; Farewell; Aftermath; The Visit-My Other Self; Historical Notes to And Peace Never Came

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Subjects

Auschwitz Autobiographies Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical Canada Erlebnisbericht HISTORY -- Western. -- Europe Holocaust survivors Holocaust survivors -- Canada Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Person… Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Récits personn… Hungary Jews Jews -- Biography. -- Hungary Judenvernichtung Juifs -- Biographies. -- Hongrie Personal narratives Raab, Elisabeth M. Survivants de l'Holocauste -- Canada Ungarn

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Raab, Elisabeth M.

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