Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered [Audiobook] download free by Ruth Kluger
- Listen audiobook: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
- Author: Ruth Kluger
- Release date: 2003/4/28
- Publisher: FEMINIST PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781558614369
- Rating: 9.76 of 10
- Votes: 119
- Review by: Rohan Coles
- Review rating: 9.62 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 2H43M25S in 256 kbps (43.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, Vorbis, MP3, WMA, MOD, WAV, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, ACE, CHM, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 216
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M8S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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. Kluger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York, has emerged as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust. 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. Still Alive is a memoir of the pursuit of selfhood against all odds, a fiercely bittersweet coming-of-age story in which the protagonist must learn never to rely on comforting assumptions, but always to seek her own truth.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literature: History & Criticism, Literary Studies: General, Holocaust, Social & Cultural History, Biography: General, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies: Women
- Download servers: Microsoft OneDrive, TusFiles, FreakShare, Google Drive, SendMyWay, Dropbox, FileServe. Compressed in ZIP, ACE, CHM, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.63 USD
- Dimensions: 140x201x15mm
- Weight: 204g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, NY, United States
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