Identity: From Holocaust to Home: A Memoir - Currently Out of Stock

Elke BABICKI

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Not many people peer over the abyss, but Elke Babicki's family did. Her German grandfather objected to Hitler and as a result ended up in a concentration camp while her mother’s family became destitute. Elke's father, Alex, who was born into a well-educated and wealthy Jewish family in Poland, spent five years in concentration camps before making his escape just before the end of the war. Alex who had lost his family, wealth, country and opportunity for education, met his wife, a Bavarian Catholic and stayed in Germany. A war that should have driven Babicki's parents apart actually brought them together to create an uncommon, Catholic-Jewish life. Elke, their daughter was born into a world of love, conflicting religious identities, PTSD, resilience and determination - this is her story. English edition of the German release Over the ocean: memories of an emigrant from Straubing. This memoir pays special tribute to long-serving, late survivor guide of Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Simon Michalowicz.

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