Showing results for "holocaust" in Art & Literature

In this astonishing mystery, family memoir and cultural history, Karen Liebreich investigates the life and death of her aunt, the artist Edith Borger, who was murdered in Paris in 1970 along with her baby. In 2021, over fifty years after her aunt's murder, Karen Liebreich received a strange...

The richly illustrated story of a woman who, late in life, copes with the buried trauma of her childhood as a Holocaust survivor by becoming a master needlework artist like her mother, who saved both their lives in the camps with her seamstress skills.

Most Polish Jews who survived the Second World War did not go to concentration camps, but were banished by Stalin to the remote prison settlements and Gulags of the Soviet Union. Less than ten percent of Polish Jews came out of the war alive-the largest population of Jews who endured-for whom Soviet exile was the main chance for survival. Ellen G. Friedman's The Seven, a Family Holocaust Story is an account of this displacement.  

The Fire and the Bonfire reveals a close–though also difficult–father-son relationship, and explores genocide through art, which leads to unexpected discoveries.