When Memory Comes: The Classic Memoir

by Saul Friedländer and Saúl FRIEDLANDER

Book Overview

A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian, now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedl nder was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the German Occupation, until his parents' ill-fated attempt to flee to Switzerland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590518071
• ISBN13: 9781590518076
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

powerful memoire

April 2008 - I read this book when it was first published. A very beautifully written and translated memoire of a Jewish boy raised as a Catholic in order to save him from the Nazi death camps.