![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book about an angel and a demon (and some humans). It needs to stop.įiled Under: fiction, nonfiction Tagged With: memoir, politics, spirituality, survival story, trauma “When the Angels Left the Old Country” by sacha lamb We are well along on the road to it happening again. In this time of rising fascism we need to understand fascism’s detailed cruelty to a child. She survived through both inner strength and luck, through care from others and a loving response to care. The child Katarína feels both joy and sorrow strongly, and keeps moving forward with fierce resilience. ![]() Kathryn shows difficult events and physical and emotional pain in response, but doesn’t dwell on it. Her lightly fictionalized memoir is beautifully written, a series of child’s-eye vignettes full of details about life in Slovakia at the time. I said, “That must have been hard!” She said no, at the time she thought the work camps were like summer camps. She brightened in recognition and said, “I was a hidden child during the Holocaust.” Like Anne Frank, but she lived. I was chatting with Kathryn at a folk dance party, and explained how my grandparents had to leave Germany because of the Holocaust. Recommended to me by: Folk dancing with the author ![]()
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