Troubled Memory

Troubled Memory
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 614
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ISBN-10 : 9780807860489
ISBN-13 : 0807860484
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Book Synopsis Troubled Memory by : Lawrence N. Powell

Download or read book Troubled Memory written by Lawrence N. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Memoryis 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.


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