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008			130716s1999 nyu 000 0aeng
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050	0	0	_aE184.37.F74 _bA4 1999
082	0	0	_a92 FRE
100	1		_aFremont, Helen
245	1	0	_aAfter long silence _b: a memoir _c/ Helen Fremont.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. _b: Delacorte Press _c, c1999.
300			_a322 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aAlong with her older sister Lara, Fremont was raised in an ostensibly Roman Catholic family in the Midwest, although her secretive and tight-lipped parents didn't follow many of the customs. Although Fremont knew that her father had been in a Siberian gulag for six years and that her mother had been in a concentration camp, she and Lara later discovered (through perseverance and detective work) that their parents were actually Polish Jews whose families had been virtually wiped out in the Holocaust. Fremont's voyage of discovery is engrossing, as she not only learns of her family's tragic history and heroic survival but also of the powerful relationships between sisters: she with Lara and her mother with her own strong-willed sister Zosia, who saved them from the Nazis. Unlocking her family's past helps draw Fremont closer to both her sister and her parents, who had remained silent for 50 years.
600	1	0	_aFremont, Helen
650			_aChildren of Holocaust survivors _v--Fiction
650		4	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _z-Poland
942			_cMO
999			_c271420 _d271420