Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana - Couverture souple

Powell, Lawrence N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807853747 ISBN 13 : 9780807853740

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Synopsis

This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto as a group, the Skoreckis evaded deportation to Treblinka, by posing as Aryans and ultimately made their way to New Orleans, where they became part of a vibrant Jewish community. Lawrence Powell traces the family's dramatic odyssey and explores the events that eventually triggered Anne Skorecki Levy's brave decision to honor the suffering of the past by confronting the recurring specter of racist hatred. Breaking decades of silence, she played a direct role in the unmasking and defeat of Duke during his 1991 campaign for the governorship of Louisiana. |How a childhood survivor of the Holocaust found the courage to publicly confront the specter of Neo-Nazism in America. A 2000 Booklist Holocaust Literature Best of the Year Selection. Winner of the 2000 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LAWRENCE N. POWELL is professor of history at Tulane University and a founding member of the Louisiana Coalition against Racism and Nazism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807853747
• ISBN 13: 9780807853740
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 616
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