The soul of things: memoir of a youth interrupted

"An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interv...

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Main Author: Fahidi, Éva 1925-2023 (Author)
Other Authors: Szapor, Judith (Editor), Sullivan, Susan (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Hungarian
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London University of Toronto Press [2020]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interviews and several prize-winning documentary films, at the age of ninety-five she is a frequent speaker at Holocaust commemorations in Hungary, Germany, and elsewhere. The Soul of Things combines a rare depiction of upper-middle-class Jewish life in pre-war Hungary with the chronicle of a woman's deportation and survival in the camps. Fahidi is a gifted writer with a unique voice, full of wisdom, humanity, and flashes of dark humour. With an unsentimental, philosophical perspective, she recounts her journey from the Great Hungarian Plain to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the force labour camp of Münchmühle, and back. The English edition includes a new introduction by historians Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor, the original prefaces to the Hungarian and German editions, an essay on the Münchmühle Camp by Fritz Brinkman-Frisch, and extensive notes providing historical and cultural context for Fahidi's narrative."--
Item Description:Translation of: Anima rerum
Physical Description:xxix, 268 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781487525125
9781487507442

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