From That Place and Time: A Memoir 1938-1947

by Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Book Overview

On August 10, 1938, Lucy S. Dawidowicz set sail from New York to Vilna, Poland, to study at the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO). For a year, while she studied the Jewish past, she immersed herself... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553352482
• ISBN13: 9780553352481
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An extraordinary personal document

As a counterpoint to her more comprehensive scholarly work on the holocaust, this book provides several personal vignettes of that period in history. Beginning in New York City the account covers making arrangements for the trip, the author's stay in Vilna, a center of Jewish culture in Poland including elements of daily life, cultural, and political events, her narrow escape from Poland as the Nazi invasion progresses, and the finally agonizing wait in New York as news of the insuing catastrophy arrives in bits and pieces. This book provides insight into what it was like to live through that period in history, and may help those close to them to understand people who actually lived through it.