Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 166 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Becoming My Mother's Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of wartime Europe. The emotional centre and narrative voice of the story belong to Eva, an artist, dreamer, and writer whose riveting recollection of the last months of World War II in Budapest, seen through a child's eyes, is reminiscent in its power of scenes in Joy Kogawa's Obasan. Exploring the bond between generations of mothers and daughters, the book illustrates the struggle between the need for independence and the search for continuity, the significant impact of childhood on adult life, the reshaping of personality in immigration, the importance of dreams in making us face reality, and the redemptive power of memory."--BOOK JACKET.

Series statement

1. Life writing series

Uniform title

1. Life writing series.

Subject

1. Gottlieb, Erika
2. Gottlieb, Erika > Family
3. Gottlieb family
4. Gottlieb, Erika > Famille
5. Gottlieb (famille)
6. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Budapest > Personal narratives
7. Mothers and daughters > Biography
8. Juifs Extermination (1939-1945) > Budapest > Récits personnels
9. Mères et filles > Biographies
10. Budapest (Hungary) > Biography

Contents

1. Foreword / Marlene Kadar -- The Bridge -- The Maze -- The Tunnel, 1913-1944 -- The Tunnel, 1944-1945 -- The Tunnel, 1952-1982 -- The Handbag.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. x).