Rose Zar (1922–2001)
Autore di In the Mouth of the Wolf
Opere di Rose Zar
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Gajda, Wanda (alias)
- Data di nascita
- 1922-07-27
- Data di morte
- 2001-11-03
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Poland
- Luogo di nascita
- Piotrkow, Poland
- Luogo di morte
- South Bend, Indiana, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Warsaw, Poland
Krakow, Poland - Attività lavorative
- human rights activist
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Breve biografia
- Rose Zar was born Ruszka Gutterman to a Jewish family in Poland. During World War II, at age 19, she fled her home in the Piotrokow ghetto and survived the Holocaust by passing as a non-Jew, obtaining false papers, and constantly changing her identity. She did many different jobs, including working as a nanny for a Nazi colonel. After the war, she emigrated to the USA. She published her memoir, In the Mouth of the Wolf, in 1992, and toured the world to share her story. Her book is still taught in schools throughout the USA and Israel.
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A true story of a young Polish Jewish woman's escape from the Nazi's.
The author describes her experiences in wartime Poland and how she survived the Holocaust by passing herself off as an Aryan.
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- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 94
- Popolarità
- #199,202
- Voto
- 4.5
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 4
She goes into significant, interesting detail of the day-to-day business of hiding, the difficulties in finding a suitable job and place to live, etc. She was fortunate in having a "good" (that is, non-Jewish) appearance and being able to speak fluent Polish without an accent, but many times she questioned her decision to live among the Aryans and wanted to stay in the ghetto with her family and friends, even if that was significantly more dangerous.
I do wish Zar had written more about her emotions during this time, and revealed some details of her prewar life. When the book starts, she's nineteen, the war is in full swing and she's about to leave the ghetto, and that's all we know.
There's not much about her post-war life either; just one short chapter of the immediate days after liberation and then a two-page epilogue about her marriage and journey to the US. I would like to know if she stayed in touch with the SS officer's wife who had been so kind to her, and their child, whose nanny she was, whom she had great affection for.
In the Mouth of the Wolf doesn't especially stand out in the genre of Holocaust memoirs, but I can recommend it -- you could do a lot worse.… (altro)