Shiksa Eva S Antwerpen 9780615770116 Books
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Shiksa lifts the veil from what has been called Germany’s “shameful family secret that cannot be acknowledged, not even privately” (see W.G. Sebald, The New Yorker November 4, 2002). The generation of Germans who experienced the apocalyptic times of World War II is passing away, and with them their secrets. Most interested observers must rely on a posteriori histories that lack the emotion and power of the eye-witness account provided by Shiksa. This book presents a view of World War II from the perspective of a young German girl coming of age during the horrors of the Hitler Regime.
Shiksa Eva S Antwerpen 9780615770116 Books
This is an astounding book. Highly engaging. Written in a truly unique style. You relive what a young, innocent, emotionally and spiritually precocious young German girl experienced growing up in the center of World War Two. We experience what she experienced and learn what she learned about love and hate and suffering and what it means to be a human being, as she grew up and was swept deeper and deeper into the horror and trauma of those times. Quite amazing. I think everyone should read this book and would benefit directly in their own understanding of life and history and their place and purpose in it. Don't delay.Product details
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Shiksa Eva S Antwerpen 9780615770116 Books Reviews
You certainly can discern, if not judge, a book by its cover--particularly this one with its large swastika and title Shiksa.
Of course, "shiksa" is an oft derogatory Yiddish word for a non-Jewish girl. In her telling, Eva Antwerpen's memoir is of an adolescence in the years before, during and just after WWII.
Life began relatively uneventfully for an artistic and questioning young girl in a family headed by an alcoholic father and a mother adhering to a despised Christian sect. However, with the war's advent and her parent's estrangement, Eva and her family are torn apart. Forced to flee, she lives as a vagabond while the Allies incessantly bomb Cologne, one of Germany's oldest cities. Eva falls in with a group of uprooted youngsters including two partly Jewish boys with whom she becomes close. "Shiksa" recounts their struggles, as they camouflage their Jewish comrades and fend for themselves until the end of the war and Armistice. In the days after liberation Eva and her two friends take a hazardous journey to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia seeking the boy's Jewish mother. It's then that Eva hears the whispered "shiksa" used to describe her and realizes that, too often, group-think particularly in times of tumult, must overwhelm individual
initiative. Eva Antwerpen's outsized story of war, love and, seemingly irremediable tribalism will force discussion as timely as tomorrow.
I liked the personal tone from someone who experienced the war, and through a young person's eyes. That trumps researchers and pundits anytime, for me.
First hand look from the other side...
a MUST READ! Thank you Eva for sharing your story... for adding your history to our consciousness, perhaps illuminating us to live in peace.
This is the first book I've come across that describes in honest, unflinching detail what it was like to grow up in Hitler's Germany from the perspective of a young 'shiksa' girl. Eva describes her youth on the one hand she is protected because she is the physical personification of Aryan girlhood, and on the other she knows that her family could be sent to a camp due to her family's anti-war religious beliefs and association with the International Bible Students. I enjoyed reading this book, and I recommend it highly!
I will never forget Eva's real life experiences as a beautiful young girl growing up in Germany during the aftermath of WWI and the horror of WWII. She is living testament and witness to the full spectrum of human behavior during peace and then apocalypse. This book had a profound effect on my awareness of that time.
This is one of those rare books that was so fascinating that I could not put it down and read it straight through. It is the true story of a young girl growing up in Cologne Germany. Her early childhood memories of a fun-loving, hard-partying Cologne with yearly Karnivals and fests contrasts sharply with the horrors of WWII and Hitler's terrible reign.
The author, her mother and her sister struggle to survive and maintain some sort of normalcy in their lives despite the constant bombing and deprivations of every type. She goes to school and tries to "fit in" with her peers despite her mother's anti-war religious beliefs. She excels in sports in a culture fanatically devoted to excellence and thus gains some acceptance. She falls in love with a young Jewish boy and at the end of the war travels with him to free his mother from the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and experiences truly what unimaginable horrors the Jewish people were subjected to.
I will never forget the chapter on the bombing of Hamburg. It is a powerful indictment of the atrocities of war. It is difficult for those of us who have not experienced war first hand to imagine the enormity of the horror and terror.
The author also deals with the subject of being the child of an alcoholic father, a charismatic man when sober and horrible when intoxicated and the impact that had on their lives.
There are many amusing and hysterically funny stories as well making this a really fascinating story of this interesting woman. I hope she does write a sequel because I would love to read more of her story. I highly recommend this book. It is filled with humor and pathos, chronicling the life of this remarkable woman.
This is an astounding book. Highly engaging. Written in a truly unique style. You relive what a young, innocent, emotionally and spiritually precocious young German girl experienced growing up in the center of World War Two. We experience what she experienced and learn what she learned about love and hate and suffering and what it means to be a human being, as she grew up and was swept deeper and deeper into the horror and trauma of those times. Quite amazing. I think everyone should read this book and would benefit directly in their own understanding of life and history and their place and purpose in it. Don't delay.
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