A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789015498 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. . The ongoing themes of denial and her growing ability to identity herself as a survivor reading the diary of Anne Frank or seeing Stalag 17 give her glimpses into her experience drive the narrative; it is only after years of analysis that she understands a connection between the "difficulty in expressing myself verbally and the early injunctions against speaking the truth." As in analysis, Richman methodically goes through her life and offers theories of who she is and how she became that way. While many Holocaust memoirs foc
For me, there was no life before the war, no secure early childhood to hold in mind, no context in which to place what was happening to me and around me. A Wolf in the Attic follows her life as she gradually becomes able to reclaim her past, to understand its impact on her life and the choices she has made, and finally, to heal a part of herself that she had been so long taught to deny.. Later, her father, who escaped from a concentration camp, found them and hid in their attic until the liberation.The story of the miraculous survival of this Jewish family is only the beginning of their long journey out of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was in the air that I breathed daily for the first four years of my life. One cannot mourn what one doesn’t acknowledge, and one cannot heal if one does not mourn A Wolf in the Attic is a powerful memoir written by a psychoanalyst who was a hidden child in Poland during World War II. Hidden in plain sight, both
psychoanalytically-informed Holocaust/coming-of-age memoir Helen Epstein "Memoirs, the signature literary form of the 21st century, speak to usprivately of the most intimate aspects of life. The fact that Sophia Richman is achild survivor of the Holocaust as well as a psychoanalyst and applies both of these vantage points to her life narrative, takes this memoir into new territory.She writes of the realms of childhood, adolescence and adulthood through theprism of someone whose very existence once depended on keeping asecret. This is an eng. Marilyn S. Jacobs said A Unique Perspective on the Holocaust. "A Wolf in the Attic", a memoir by Dr. Sophia Richman adds a valuable perspective to the literature of the Holocaust. Dr. Richman was a hidden child in Poland who survived to tell her story of what it meant to transcend such an ordeal and then go on to try to strive for and fit in with normal life. This work is a unique exposition of a journey to overcome a traumatic past and to engage fully in life under renewed circumstances yet with the past just under the surface. . A Different and Vital Perspective Lawrence E. Burgee I thought the book was excellent! I have read dozens of books about the Holocaust and this document certainly offers a different and vital perspective that has not previously been covered in the literature. As you progress through the book, it is quite clear that the after-effects for Holocaust survivors are persistent and nagging, and greatly affect them for the rest of their lives. Sophia Richman's experience demonstrates that tragic events that surround young childr