Gazing at the stars : memories of a child survivor / Eva Slonim.
Publication details: Collingwood, VIC : Black Inc., 2014.Description: x, 180 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 22 cmISBN:- 1863956530 (hardback)
- 9781863956536 (hardback)
- 1863956549 (paperback)
- 9781863956543 (paperback)
- Slonim, Eva
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography
- Jewish children -- Slovakia -- Biography
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Slovakia -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives
- Holocaust survivors -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography
- 940.5318092 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 940.531 SLO | Available | 057437 |
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These events, the persecution of my people, have simply become part of the collection of facts that people now call 'history'. I lived these facts every day. They are part of my memory. 'History' tells us that the Jews of Bratislava were persecuted by the invading Nazis. What it doesn't tell us is how it feels, as a nine-year-old girl, to have your bicycle forced from your hands, confiscated by a soldier while your father watches, powerless.