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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 41 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Natasha Soudek. |
| Summary |
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times). Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Klüger, Ruth, 1931-
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Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Vienna -- Personal narratives.
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Holocaust survivors -- New York (State) -- Biography.
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Vienna (Austria) -- Biography.
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New York (State) -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Soudek, Natasha.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666106336 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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166610633X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14001466 |
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