Family History of Fear
Author: Tuszynska, Agata
ISBN: 9780385721967
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 18 May 2017
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
The affecting true story of one woman's discovery and acceptance of her history; a searing portrait of Polish Jewish life before and after the Third Reich.
It wasn't until she was nineteen that Agata Tuszynska, one of Poland's most admired poets and cultural historians, discovered that she was Jewish. In this profoundly moving and resonant work, she uncovers the truth about her family's history-a mother who entered the Warsaw Ghetto at age eight and escaped just before the uprising; a father, one of five thousand Polish soldiers taken prisoner in 1939, who would become the country's most famous radio sports announcer; and other relatives and their mysterious pasts-as she tries to make sense of anti-Semitism in her country. The poignant story of one woman coming to terms with herself, Family History of Fear is also a searing portrait of Polish Jewish life, before and after Hitler's Third Reich.
ISBN: 9780385721967
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 18 May 2017
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
The affecting true story of one woman's discovery and acceptance of her history; a searing portrait of Polish Jewish life before and after the Third Reich.
It wasn't until she was nineteen that Agata Tuszynska, one of Poland's most admired poets and cultural historians, discovered that she was Jewish. In this profoundly moving and resonant work, she uncovers the truth about her family's history-a mother who entered the Warsaw Ghetto at age eight and escaped just before the uprising; a father, one of five thousand Polish soldiers taken prisoner in 1939, who would become the country's most famous radio sports announcer; and other relatives and their mysterious pasts-as she tries to make sense of anti-Semitism in her country. The poignant story of one woman coming to terms with herself, Family History of Fear is also a searing portrait of Polish Jewish life, before and after Hitler's Third Reich.
