Frida Scheps Weinstein
Autor de A hidden childhood, 1942-1945
Obras de Frida Scheps Weinstein
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1936
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- France (birth)
Israel - Lugar de nacimiento
- Paris, France
- Lugares de residencia
- Dijon, France
Jerusalem, Israel
New York, New York, USA - Biografía breve
- Frida Scheps Weinstein was born in Paris, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants to France. Just before the start of World War II, her father went to the British Mandate of Palestine to make arrangements for them to move there; Frida and her mother were trapped in Paris by the war and the Nazi Occupation. They went on the run until Frida's mother sent her to a Roman Catholic boarding school for safety. Even at age six, she understood that it was vital for her to conceal her Jewish origins, but then and later she experienced feelings of isolation, shame, guilt, abandonment, and identity confusion. Her mother was arrested near the Swiss border, deported to Germany, and died in Bergen-Belsen. Frida survived the war and was reunited with her father in Jerusalem in 1947. In 1961, she moved to the USA, working for Agence-France Presse and settling in New York. Her memoir A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1941-1945 was published in 1985 and was short-listed for a Pulitzer Prize.
Miembros
Reseñas
Usually I'm fascinated with stories of the holocaust, but couldn't get into this one and didn't finish. A French Jewish girl spends WWII at a convent school in the country.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 58
- Popularidad
- #284,346
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 4
Everyone at the convent knew Frida was Jewish; it was common knowledge. Although she practiced the Catholic faith, she had not been baptized and sat at the table alone when everyone else went up to get communion. Therefore I cannot understand why her presence there was not reported and why she was not, like the majority of French Jews, hauled away by the Nazis and killed. Frida, being so young, didn't really understand what was going on, but the adult author could have included some explanation without compromising the child's voice, I think.… (más)