Ellen Cassedy's We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust PDF

By Ellen Cassedy

Winner of the 2013 nationwide booklet Prize from Grub highway, the 2013 Towson Prize for Literature, the Silver Medal for heritage from the 2012 ForeWord e-book of the yr Awards, the 2013 Prakhin overseas Literary starting place Award, and the 2013-14 top publication Award from the organization for the development of Baltic reviews. Shortlisted for the 2014 Saroyan Prize.

Ellen Cassedy's longing to get better the Yiddish she'd misplaced along with her mother's loss of life finally led her to Lithuania, as soon as the "Jerusalem of the North." As she ready for her trip, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a surprising disclosure approximately his wartime adventure, and an aged guy from her ancestral city made an unsettling request. progressively, what had began as a private trip broadened right into a better exploration of ways the folks of this state, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their previous so as to circulation ahead into the longer term. How does a nation--how do successor generations, ethical beings--overcome a bloody earlier? How will we pass judgement on the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? those are the questions Cassedy confronts in we're the following, one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish heritage mixed with a private exploration of her personal family's position in it.

Digging via information with assistance from a neighborhood whose factors are difficult to her; interviewing natives, together with an outdated guy who desires to "speak to a Jew" sooner than he dies; gaining knowledge of the problems encountered through a rustic that continued either Nazi and Soviet occupation--Cassedy reveals that it isn't simply the proof of historical past that subject, yet what we decide to do with them.

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