Undying Rage: The Reluctant Return - A Survivor's Journey into an Austrian Town

The Holocaust is the central event of my life. I survived Hitler as a nine-year-old boy. So when I am asked to review a book about the Holocaust, I feel anxiety. What will I confront: a distortion, like Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life? A sadly matter-of-fact, almost boring account...

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Published inMoment (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 26; no. 1; p. 100
Main Author Nir, Yehuda
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Moment Magazine 28.02.2001
Subjects
Crime
Holocaust
Jewish people
Literature
Weiss, David W
Austria
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Summary:The Holocaust is the central event of my life. I survived Hitler as a nine-year-old boy. So when I am asked to review a book about the Holocaust, I feel anxiety. What will I confront: a distortion, like Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life? A sadly matter-of-fact, almost boring account of events? A clever novel like The Reader, Bernard Schlink's best-selling testament to German naivete? Two minutes into David W. Weiss's brilliant memoir, The Reluctant Return, I calmed down. It is an honest, personal memoir of a Holocaust survivor, now professor emeritus of immunology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Professor Weiss describes his 1995 return as a guest of honor to the Austrian town where he was born, and from which he escaped in 1938 at age eleven.
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ISSN:0099-0280