The fiftieth gate: a journey through memory
What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the dark...
| Subtitles: | 50th gate |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Melbourne, Australia
Text Publishing
2017
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| In: | Year: 1997 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jews
/ Survivor
/ David, Kurt 1924-1994, Die Überlebende
/ Descendant
B Australia / Jews |
| Further subjects: | B
Children of Holocaust survivors (Australia) Biography
B Jews (Australia) Biography B Baker, Mark Raphael (1959-) B Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| Summary: | What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, finds light. In his evocative prose, Baker takes us to this place of horror, and then brings us back to reflect on these events and remember- 'Never again'.Across the silence of fifty years, Baker and his family travel from Poland and Germany to Jerusalem and Melbourne, as the author struggles to uncover the mystery of his parents' survival- his father Yossl was imprisoned in concentration camps and his mother Genia was forced into hiding after the Jews of her village were murdered.Twenty years on The Fiftieth Gate remains an extraordinary book. It has become a classic and has now sold over 70,000 copies. In his new introduction, he recalls his motivations for writing this important memoir, and highlights how the testimonial culture in Holocaust studies has spread to awareness of other genocides and our responsibility (and failure) to prevent them |
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| Item Description: | First published in 1997 by Harper Collins Publishers, Australia Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1925498611 |