Children of Zion

In Children of Zion, Henryk Grynberg takes an extraordinary collection of interviews conducted by representatives of the Polish government-in-exile in Palestine in 1943 and arranges them in such a way that their voices become unforgettable. The interviewees--all Polish children--tell of their wartime experiences. Rather than using traditional form, Grynberg has turned their voices into a large "choral" group. The children recall their lives before the war (most were well off), their memories of the war's outbreak and the arrival of the Germans and Russians, and their experiences after leaving work camps and the ways many coped with their lives as orphans.
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Children of Zion

In Children of Zion, Henryk Grynberg takes an extraordinary collection of interviews conducted by representatives of the Polish government-in-exile in Palestine in 1943 and arranges them in such a way that their voices become unforgettable. The interviewees--all Polish children--tell of their wartime experiences. Rather than using traditional form, Grynberg has turned their voices into a large "choral" group. The children recall their lives before the war (most were well off), their memories of the war's outbreak and the arrival of the Germans and Russians, and their experiences after leaving work camps and the ways many coped with their lives as orphans.
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In Children of Zion, Henryk Grynberg takes an extraordinary collection of interviews conducted by representatives of the Polish government-in-exile in Palestine in 1943 and arranges them in such a way that their voices become unforgettable. The interviewees--all Polish children--tell of their wartime experiences. Rather than using traditional form, Grynberg has turned their voices into a large "choral" group. The children recall their lives before the war (most were well off), their memories of the war's outbreak and the arrival of the Germans and Russians, and their experiences after leaving work camps and the ways many coped with their lives as orphans.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810113534
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 01/14/1998
Series: Jewish Lives
Edition description: Translated
Pages: 178
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

HENRYK GRYNBERG was born in Warsaw in 1936. He is known for his writings on the Jewish experience of World War II.

JACQUELINE MITCHELL, a translator, lives in New York.

Table of Contents


Preface
We Lived Pretty Well
When War Broke Out
Germans, Germans, Germans
Russians, Bolsheviks
The Longest Journey
We Worked
"Religious Criminals"
When the News of the Amnesty Came
We Knew We Were Dying
Orphans
List of Testimonies
Afterword
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