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Finding Edith: Surviving The Holocaust In Plain Sight, Edith Mayer Cord
Finding Edith: Surviving The Holocaust In Plain Sight, Edith Mayer Cord
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Finding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight is the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl chased in Europe during World War II. Like a great adventure story, the book describes the childhood and adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the religious persecution of Jews throughout Europe. Edith was hunted in Western Europe and Vichy France, where she was hidden in plain sight, constantly afraid of discovery and denunciation. Forced to keep every thought to herself, Edith developed an intense inner life. After …
05/31/1946, Israel Bernstein
05/31/1946, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding family visits; summer school; Kravchenko's I Chose Freedom.
05/29/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/29/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding visit with family (Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Don, Aunt Esther, Ellen); summer school; court martial; Cluny Brown.
05/28/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/28/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding meeting with Colonels; when he will leave the Army; registering for Harvard.
05/28/1946 C, Rebecca Bernstein
05/28/1946 C, Rebecca Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from mother Rebecca (Peggy) regarding attempts to move up Sumner's discharge date; Harvard summer school.
05/28/1946 B, Israel Bernstein
05/28/1946 B, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding attempt to call Senator Brewster; registration for Harvard.
05/27/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/27/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding meeting with Colonels on timing of his leaving the Army; life insurance.
05/27/1946 B, Israel Bernstein
05/27/1946 B, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding train strike.
05/26/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/26/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding plans for leaving the Army; visits with family friends in Allentown, PA.
05/24/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/24/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter from Sumner Bernstein to sister Helen Barbara regarding correspondence; Harvard registration; news from home.
05/23/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/23/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding life on base; demobilization; strike.
05/21/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/21/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner T. Bernstein regarding life on base; Harvard summer school; demobilization.
05/22/1946, Israel Bernstein
05/22/1946, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from his father Israel Bernstein regarding correspondence; Sumner's last few weeks in service; mother's eye surgery; staying in the reserves.
05/20/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/20/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding weekend trip to New York.
05/17/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/17/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding life on base; Jewish services; weekend plans.
05/16/1946, Israel Bernstein
05/16/1946, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding news from Sumner; the American Zionist movement; reading I Chose Freedom by Victor Kranchenko.
05/15/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/15/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding upcoming demobilization; pay; leave; thoughts about joining the reserves.
05/14/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/14/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding correspondence; news from home; weekend plans; life on base.
05/13/1946 B, Israel Bernstein
05/13/1946 B, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from his father Israel regarding news from Sumner; news about mother; news about sister Helen's sorority formal.
05/13/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/13/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding trip to New York for a date; weekend plans; life on base.
05/12/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/12/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumer T. Bernstein regarding news from home; Mother's Day; trip to New York for a date.
05/10/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/10/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding travel plan to Brooklyn; attendance at services; anniversary of V-E Day.
05/09/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/09/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding time on leave; life on base; correspondence; news from home; Red Sox.
05/08/1946 B, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/08/1946 B, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding correspondence; life on base.
05/08/1946 C, Israel Bernstein
05/08/1946 C, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding upcoming demobilization; Sumner's activities; Mother's Day.
05/08/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/08/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding phone call home; life on base; adjusting to life in US.
05/07/1946 C, Israel Bernstein
05/07/1946 C, Israel Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding Sumner's upcoming demobilization; mother's health.
05/07/1946 B, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/07/1946 B, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Mother's Day note from Sumner Bernstein to his mother.
05/07/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/07/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding news clippings; life on base.
05/06/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
05/06/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding frustration with Army bureaucracy; trip to Richmond, VA.