Paperback, 216 pages
English language
Published March 14, 2003 by The Feminist Press.
Still Alive
A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)
by Ruth Klüger
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-of-age story that delves into the unsentimental observations of childhood, "Still Alive" rejects easy assumptions about history as Kluger relates how she and her family survived the Holocaust.
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-of-age story that delves into the unsentimental observations of childhood, "Still Alive" rejects easy assumptions about history as Kluger relates how she and her family survived the Holocaust.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jews
- General
- Biography / Autobiography
- Vienna
- Biography & Autobiography
- Jewish children in the Holocaust
- Biography/Autobiography
- Jewish - General
- Historical - Holocaust
- Childhood Memoir
- Women
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Personal narratives
- Women Authors
- Austria
- Biography