I Have My Mother's Eyes: A Holocaust Story Across Generations

✍ Scribed by Bluman, Barbara Ruth

• Book ID: 109728378
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781553800705
• ASIN: B00I2VKD2Y

✦ Synopsis

This Holocaust memoir crosses generations. In I Have My Mothers Eyes, Barbara Ruth Bluman chronicles her mothers dramatic journey from Nazi-occupied Poland to western British Columbia, where her legacy lives on.

Bluman sets an urgent and intimate tone as she follows Zosia Hoffenberg from her genteel upbringing in Warsaw through the shock of the blitzkrieg and on to her escape from Europe through Lithuania, the Soviet Union and Japan. That escape required the help of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Lithuania, who defied his superiors and helped several thousand Jews to flee.

Bluman also reveals how, even as she was recording her mothers tale of survival, cancer was ravaging her own body. In this interwoven narrative, Bluman explains how she garnered strength from her mothers account as a refugee, staring death in the face. These twin narratives blossom out of salvaged journal entries and letters, and from the photographs of family members who have reunited after years of displacement. Blumans daughter Danielle Low brings this double memoir to a conclusion.

A celebration of the universal struggle for survival, I Have My Mothers Eyes offers a hopeful response to one of historys darkest times.

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