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• catalog abstract "Ursula Hegi uses the art of the interview to see deeply into the personal histories of fifteen women and men as they confront at last the terrible and pervasive silence that made any mention of the Holocaust taboo in their homes and schools while they were growing up. For many of them this is the first time they've spoken of these memories and feelings. They share their pain with us, their guilt, their anger, and their compassion as they take us into the world of their. Parents and try to sort out the impact of the war on their own lives. The more specific these life stories are, the more universal they become. Included in Tearing the Silence is Hegi's personal journey of leaving in Germany as an eighteen-year-old. She approaches the interviews as a novelist - not a historian - searching for the connecting themes within each story, and then lifting these themes to the surface by selecting significant material, much in the way she would. Write a story or novel. A huge difference, though, is that the words are entirely those of the women and men, who tell her about their lives with such amazing openness. A skillful interviewer, Ursula Hegi focuses on understanding the character and story of the individuals in all their complexity. While some genuinely attempt to understand their cultural heritage and feel a deep responsibility to be aware of the Holocaust and pass that awareness on to future generations, Others have stayed within the familiar silence that manifests itself in denial, evasion, justification, and an inability to mourn - not all that different from the response of their parents' generation. Tearing the Silence contributes to a more complex picture of a time period we are still struggling to understand. It is a powerful and provocative account of post-Holocaust German immigrants in America, an important document of what it is like to grow up within the. Numbing silence of postwar Germany, a moving story of what it means to live between two cultures.".
• catalog contributor b10272734.
• catalog coverage "Germany History 1945-1990.".
• catalog coverage "United States Ethnic relations.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "Numbing silence of postwar Germany, a moving story of what it means to live between two cultures.".
• catalog description "Others have stayed within the familiar silence that manifests itself in denial, evasion, justification, and an inability to mourn - not all that different from the response of their parents' generation. Tearing the Silence contributes to a more complex picture of a time period we are still struggling to understand. It is a powerful and provocative account of post-Holocaust German immigrants in America, an important document of what it is like to grow up within the.".
• catalog description "Parents and try to sort out the impact of the war on their own lives. The more specific these life stories are, the more universal they become. Included in Tearing the Silence is Hegi's personal journey of leaving in Germany as an eighteen-year-old. She approaches the interviews as a novelist - not a historian - searching for the connecting themes within each story, and then lifting these themes to the surface by selecting significant material, much in the way she would.".
• catalog description "Ursula Hegi uses the art of the interview to see deeply into the personal histories of fifteen women and men as they confront at last the terrible and pervasive silence that made any mention of the Holocaust taboo in their homes and schools while they were growing up. For many of them this is the first time they've spoken of these memories and feelings. They share their pain with us, their guilt, their anger, and their compassion as they take us into the world of their.".
• catalog description "Write a story or novel. A huge difference, though, is that the words are entirely those of the women and men, who tell her about their lives with such amazing openness. A skillful interviewer, Ursula Hegi focuses on understanding the character and story of the individuals in all their complexity. While some genuinely attempt to understand their cultural heritage and feel a deep responsibility to be aware of the Holocaust and pass that awareness on to future generations,".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Ursula: Tearing the Silence -- pt. 2. The Interviews. Johanna: The Longing for One Leader. Ulrich: It Is at Least My Responsibility to Be Aware. Anneliese: I Don't Want to Know. Karl: I'm a Chameleon. Eva: Just Because I'm German Doesn't Mean I Am a Nazi. Hans-Peter: It's My Heritage -- Yet I Had No Say in It. Sigrid: A Talent for Adapting. Joachim: During Hitler's Time You Would Have Been Shot for That. Kurt: Am I the Product of a Rape? Marika: I Need to Survive Again. Heinrich: Playing in Bomb Craters. Beate: Small Talk. Gisela: The Making of the Beast. Jurgen: Why Should So Many People Come and Change Our Culture? Katharina: When Germans and Jews Can Talk.".
• catalog extent "302 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Tearing the silence.".
• catalog identifier "0684829967".
• catalog isFormatOf "Tearing the silence.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
• catalog relation "Tearing the silence.".
• catalog spatial "Germany History 1945-1990.".
• catalog spatial "Germany".
• catalog spatial "Germany.".
• catalog spatial "United States Ethnic relations.".
• catalog subject "973/.0431 21".
• catalog subject "E184.G3 H28 1997".
• catalog subject "German Americans Interviews.".
• catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany Influence.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Children Germany Biography.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Germany Personal narratives, German.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Germany.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, German.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Ursula: Tearing the Silence -- pt. 2. The Interviews. Johanna: The Longing for One Leader. Ulrich: It Is at Least My Responsibility to Be Aware. Anneliese: I Don't Want to Know. Karl: I'm a Chameleon. Eva: Just Because I'm German Doesn't Mean I Am a Nazi. Hans-Peter: It's My Heritage -- Yet I Had No Say in It. Sigrid: A Talent for Adapting. Joachim: During Hitler's Time You Would Have Been Shot for That. Kurt: Am I the Product of a Rape? Marika: I Need to Survive Again. Heinrich: Playing in Bomb Craters. Beate: Small Talk. Gisela: The Making of the Beast. Jurgen: Why Should So Many People Come and Change Our Culture? Katharina: When Germans and Jews Can Talk.".
• catalog title "Tearing the silence : on being German in America / Ursula Hegi.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Interviews. fast".
• catalog type "Personal narratives German. fast".
• catalog type "text".