When Europe Was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941

by Otto Schrag and Peter Schrag

Book Overview

In a compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family's eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of himself and his mother, supplemented by historical research. The result is both personal and provocative, involving as it does issues of history and memory, fiction and "truth," courage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253017696
• ISBN13: 9780253017697
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 0.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher