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PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press

ISBN-100889202923

ISBN-139780889202924

eBay Product ID (ePID)1180212

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Book TitleAnd Peace Never Came

Number of Pages206 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicWomen, Holocaust, Literary, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorElisabeth M. Raab

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-141738

ReviewsIt is beautifully written -- very powerful in its eye for detail and the stark simplicity of the narrative style., It is beautifully written - very powerful in its eye for detail and the stark simplicity of the narrative style., Told in hauntingly simple prose, this autobiographical novel describer Elisabth 'Boske' Raab's experiences in Auschwitz and afterwards with what sometimes seems like detachment--the reader only fully realizes the depth of Raab's pain by listening to her silences.... In every silence and behind every word, are faces, voices, and unspoken memories.... And Peace Never Came teaches the student and the interested reader that it is too easy, over fifty years later, to rest comfortably in the image of the Holocaust as a story with a beginning and an ending....It is too easy to believe that the pain ended in 1945. Raab's novel insists that we recognize, as children and grandchildren of survivors and persecutors and spectators, that the Holocaust is not simply a 'story'; it does not hold a singular ultimately redeeming 'message' for humanity. The painful legacy left by the Holocaust asks that we listen, that we resist, and that we remain aware. And Peace Never Came allows us that opportunity., Elisabeth M. Raab's haunting, terse, and beautiful memoir seeks not to impress the reader with all she has seen or heard of the momentous events of her life, but with what she has seen fit to take away. ... Completely original, ferociously disciplined, Raab, eschewing commentary, insists only on telling her story so that the reader can come to his or her own conclusion....This is unforgettable writing.

Volume NumberNo. 3

Table Of ContentTable of Contents for And Peace Never Came by Elisabeth Raab Acknowledgements Five Years' Passage Prologue Our Window Nora Who in Their Right Mind...? The Narrowing Circle Number 168 From the Ashes What Remains The Return Alone In Transit Waiting Farewell Aftermath The Visit-My Other Self Historical Notes to And Peace Never Came Marlene Kadar

SynopsisProvides a moving picture of the authors's idyllic life before her internment by the Nazis,the shock and the horrors of Auschwitz, and her search for freedom that begins with the chaotic barrenness in which she found herself after her liberation on Easter Sunday, April 1945, and takes her across several continents and half a lifetime., "It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath." So begins the author's sojourn, her search for freedom that begins with the chaotic barrenness in which she found herself after her liberation on Easter Sunday, April 1945, and takes her across several continents and half a lifetime. Raab paints a brief yet moving picture of her idyllic life before her internment and the shock and the horrors of Auschwitz, but it is in the images of life after her liberation, that Raab imparts her most poignant story -- a story told in a clear, almost sparse, always honest style, a story of the brutal, and, at times, the beautiful facts of human nature. This book will appeal to a number of audiences -- to readers interested in human nature under the most trying circumstances, to historians of World War II or Jewish history, to veterans and their families who lived through World War II, and to those interested in politics and the evils of political extremism., "It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath." ( from Chapter 5 ) So begins the author's sojourn, her search for freedom that begins with the chaotic barrenness in which she found herself after her liberation on Easter Sunday, April 1945, and takes her across several continents and half a lifetime. Raab paints a brief yet moving picture of her idyllic life before her internment and the shock and the horrors of Auschwitz, but it is in the images of life after her liberation, that Raab imparts her most poignant story -- a story told in a clear, almost sparse, always honest style, a story of the brutal, and, at times, the beautiful facts of human nature. This book will appeal to a number of audiences -- to readers interested in human nature under the most trying circumstances, to historians of World War II or Jewish history, to veterans and their families who lived through World War II, and to those interested in politics and the evils of political extremism.