Eva and Eve : : a Search for my Mother's Lost Childhood and What a war Left Behind
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To Julie Metz, her mother, Eve, was the quintessential New Yorker. It was difficult to imagine her living anywhere else except the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In truth, Eve had endured a harrowing childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna, though she rarely spoke about it. Yet after her passing, Julie discovered a keepsake box filled with farewell notes from friends and relatives addressed to a ten-year-old girl named Eva, her mother. This was the first clue to the secret pain that Julie's mother had carried as an immigrant, and it shed light on a family that had to rely on its own perseverance to escape the xenophobia that threatened their survival. A beautiful blend of personal memoir and family history, Metz shows how one woman's search for her mother's lost childhood offers valuable lessons about the sacrifices people make to save their families during some of the darkest times in history.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Atria Books, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 308 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781982127985
1982127988
SUBJECTS
Metz, Julie -- Family.
Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
Jews -- Vienna -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Vienna.
Biographies.