Liliane Pelzman

story of survival and a daughter's journey to understand
By N.H. - See all my reviews
This review is from: And No More Sorrow (Paperback)
What makes this holocaust memoir of a young Dutch woman particularly interesting and quite readable is the fact that the author, L. Pelzman, happens to be the subject's daughter. With a daughter's sensitivity, she delves into the most intimate details of her mother's life in the years prior to and after her deportation to a series of concentration camps. A well researched chronology of events woven into her mother's story is especially useful in understanding most Jews' feelings of denial and in particular, her mother's. This was a very compelling read . I especially appreciated Pelzman's personal insights of how the Holocaust continued to affect her own childhood years after the event. I read the book in two sittings, and highly recommend it.… (más)