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Highlights
- The Eyes Are The Same, a memoir of the Holocaust, describes a child's consciousness with great fidelity and a poet's eye.
- Author(s): Susan Gold
- 256 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, General
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Book Synopsis
The Eyes Are The Same, a memoir of the Holocaust, describes a child's consciousness with great fidelity and a poet's eye. Drawn into a vortex of deception, denial, and lies, her privileged childhood is torn apart-replaced by two harrowing years spent in a hole in the ground beneath a stable, and a long subsequent recovery.
Review Quotes
"This is one of the most authentic and devastating accounts of the Holocaust that I have read. It is the memoir of a young eyewitness that leaves nothing to the imagination: It is stark, immediate, and poignant in the extreme."
-Martin Gilbert, Author of The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy
"Bravo! It is a rare historian who enables us to stand on the threshold of a dark time in the history of the world and see it through the eyes of a child who lived through it."
-Sol Stein
"An individual death creates a deep sense of loss, the pain being erased by the rituals of mourning. Yet how does one respond to the loss of entire families murdered in a genocide? Susan Gold has found a way. . . This book needs to be read by all who care, and may it encourage others to add to the memory and thereby lighten the pain of those of us left to live."
-Henry R. Huttenbach, Journal of Genocide Research