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Eva and Eve a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind

Eva and Eve a search for my mother's lost childhood and what a war left behind

Metz, Julie, author.
Large Print 2021

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 firs...

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Austria Vienna
Jews Austria Vienna Biography
Metz, Julie Family
Mothers and daughters Biography
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ISBN:
9781638080343
1638080348
Edition:
Large print edition
Description:
495 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
large print
Notes:
Originally published in standard print format: New York : Atria Books, 2021
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Eva, at nine
Ending and beginning
A visit to the old country
A cassette tape
Another visit to the old country
Interlude
Open door
Based on a true story
A third visit to the old country
Two years
A visit to the city by the sea
The crossing
The new country
LCCN:
2021939375
Control Number:
3095984
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