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Full Description
The Journey Home is an engrossing anthology of twenty essays. Each one tells a different story about what it means to grow up in the shadow of the Holocaust and then to find a way of breaking free of the residual darkness of childhood by making a physical and emotional journey back into the past, to the «home» of one's ancestors: the «home» they were forced to physically leave.
Some of these journeys are undertaken with a parent. Others are undertaken with friends or partners and some venture back alone. Along the way, new connections are forged with the living and with the dead, with the past and with the present.
Together with an introduction and epilogue, the book provides not only examples of the lived experience of being «second generation» but also offers some theoretical background to the stories and relates them to current and important themes, such as the role of acknowledgement, memorialization and commemoration. With eighty million people around the world currently displaced by disaster, war and famine, many of these stories speak for descendants of refugees and survivors of all such catastrophes.
Contents
Contents: David Clark and Teresa von Sommaruga Howard: Introduction - Journeys with a survivor or refugee parent - Janet Eisenstein: «Heimish» at last - Naomi Levy: Kraków: A visit with my mother to her hometown - Tina Kennedy: Lost in transportation - Vivienne Cato: Faraway country, faraway time? - Teresa von Sommaruga Howard: Living with humiliation: Reflections on a trip to Berlin with my father - Elaine Sinclair: Mein shtetele Turek - Diti Ronen: The only house that was built for me - Journeys without a survivor or refugee parent - Rosemary Schonfeld: Terežin 2000 - Marian Liebmann: Exploring German Jewish roots in Berlin - Vivian Hassan-Lambert: Letter from Bratislava: 1976 - Oliver Hoffmann: The dawn of realization - Diana Wichtel: Into the stream of history - Zuzana Crouch: Shards of the past - Monica Lowenberg: Black milk and word light: To Latvia, Siberia and back - Barbara Dresner: Only a two-hour flight, but it took me forty-seven years to get here! - Journeys undertaken for commemorative events - Merilyn Moos: «Opening doors» - Nik Pollinger/Pöllinger: I joined the dots and the dots joined me - Gina Burgess Winning: Haunted, or at home? - Peter Bohm: Three unexpected ceremonies - David Clark: Compass points in a nomadic life - Teresa von Sommaruga Howard: Epilogue.
