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'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes'
Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
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2010
Summary
Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway. Her first conscious recollection of life goes back to 1942, when as a young child she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War II, to avoid annihilation. Germany had invaded Norway and the persecution of two thousand Norwegian Jews had begun. Seven members of her father's family were among the seven hundred and seventy-one unfortunate persons who were deported and sent to Auschwitz.
In 2005, Irene was forced to examine the label of being a Holocaust survivor. Her strong dual identity as a Norwegian and a Jew led her to explore previously unopened doors in her mind. This is not a narrative of the Holocaust alone, but the remembrance of growing up Jewish in Norway during and after WWII. In addition to the richness of both her Norwegian and Jewish cultures, she ultimately acquired yet another identity as an American.
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Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5011-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5012-0
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
186
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Why Norway Wasn’t Too Small No access Pages 1 - 7
Chapter 01. The Escape No access Pages 8 - 16
Chapter 02. Refugees in Exile No access Pages 17 - 26
Chapter 03. Those Who Came First—The Levin Family No access Pages 27 - 35
Chapter 04. Those Who Came First—The Selikowitz Family No access Pages 36 - 49
Chapter 05. The Family That ‘Disappeared’ No access Pages 50 - 70
Chapter 06. War and Holocaust No access Pages 71 - 102
Chapter 07. The Silence No access Pages 103 - 112
Chapter 08. Return from Exile No access Pages 113 - 128
Chapter 09. Learning How To Be a Norwegian Jew No access Pages 129 - 141
Chapter 10. On Marrying a Jew No access Pages 142 - 146
Chapter 11. Life in America No access Pages 147 - 158
Chapter 12. The Myth about the Danish King No access Pages 159 - 164
Chapter 13. Identity No access Pages 165 - 177
Chapter 14. The Journey into the Past No access Pages 178 - 186
