'The Holocaust is a drug and I have entered an opium den . . . I will discover that there is no end to the dealers I can find for just one more hit. My parents don't even realize that they are drug dealers. They could never imagine the kind of high H gives, making me want to dive into its endless depth. Sending me out to libraries to read any and every book that dealt with the Holocaust . . . the paper could all be chopped up into a fine powder, like ash, perhaps, laid down, row upon row, and snorted' Uniquely structured and uniquely told, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is a distillation of Bernice Eisenstein's memories of her 1950s childhood as the daughter of Yiddish-speaking parents whose experiences during the war, while rarely spoken of, were nonetheless a constant presence. Eisenstein's parents met in Auschwitz as the war was ending, and were married shortly after its liberation. This extraordinary memoir began to take root in her imagination several years ago, almost a decade after her father's death; she began with a series of drawings of her father, but realized that pictures alone could not convey what she had to say - 'And so I entered into a dance between pictures and the written word. I had two languages that worked together - to translate the layered meaning of my past, and that of my parents, on to the page.' In an amazing synthesis of prose and illustration, and with poignancy and searing honesty, Eisenstein explores with ineffable sadness and bittersweet humour her childhood growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust, while also addressing universal themes of memory, loss and recovery of the past. I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is striking, original and unforgettable; it has the makings of a classic.
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My parents and their friends are inextricably linked, by the events in their shared past and by the future they came to build, and the pull of their history was irresistible. I have always been able to step into the presence of absence. It is something that I have needed to do. But I have never found for myself the right distance from the time when my parents’ lives had been so damaged.
'All my life, I’ve looked for more in order to fill in the parts of my father that had gone missing. . . .'
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, by writer/artist Bernice Eisenstein, is a brilliantly crafted, utterly compelling memoir that has captured attention around the world for its originality of vision, for the startling beauty of its highly charged writing, and for its haunting and unforgettable artwork.
Eisenstein’s parents met in Auschwitz and married shortly after Liberation before coming to Canada. Her memoir begins with recollections and images of her childhood within a Yiddish-speaking household in Toronto’s Kensington Market area in the early 1950s. Her parents’ experiences in the war, hardly spoken about, were always present.
It was only later, as she gathered the fragments of her parents’ harrowing past, that Eisenstein began to discover her own relationship to the Holocaust and how it has shaped who she is.
Eisenstein’s voice is disarming, unexpected, infused with a deadpan lyricism, and speaks with a yearning heart.
Deeply moving, devoid of sentimentality, this stunning illustrated memoir resonates universally as it explores the process of memory, of loss, and the indelible nature of the past.
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