The author's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, he had little to work with. They left two orphaned children, a handful of letters, and a passport. Persecute...

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Main Author:	Jablonka, Ivan 1973- (Author)
Other Authors:	Kuntz, Jane (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California Stanford University Press [2016]
Series:	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Subjects:	Jablonka, Matès Jablonka, Idesa Jablonka, Ivan 1973- / Family / Jablonka, Idesa / Jablonka, Ivan 1973- / Jablonka, Matès / Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / 1939-1945 Jews, Polish / Biography / France Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / France Families Jews, Polish / France
Summary:	The author's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, he had little to work with. They left two orphaned children, a handful of letters, and a passport. Persecuted as communists in Poland, as refugees in France, and then as Jews under the Vichy regime, Matès and Idesa lived their short lives underground. They were overcome by the tragedies of the twentieth century: Stalinism, the mounting dangers in Europe during the 1930s, the Second World War, and the destruction of European Jews. To write this book, he traveled to three continents; met the handful of survivors of his grandparents' era, their descendants, and some of his far-flung cousins; and investigated twenty different archivesIn the process, he reflected on his own family and his responsibilities to his father, the orphaned son, and to his own children and the family wounds they all inherited
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-329)
Physical Description:	xiv, 334 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, genealogische Tafeln
ISBN:	9780804795449