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Papers presented at a symposium held in Jawaharlal Nehru University, 15-16 Mar. 1995. |
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I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust
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The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems. |
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The Tenement Writer
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The Tenement Writer: An Immigrant’s Story follows a young Jewish immigrant from Poland as she struggles to build a new life in America and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer.
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Grace in the Wilderness
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A young girl's emotional struggle to come to terms with both her past spent in the camps during WW2 and leaving loved ones behind in Sweden to start a new life in America. |
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