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Schoschana Rabinovici (1932–2019)

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Weksler, Suzanne
Rabinovici, Shoshana
Geboortedatum
1932-11-14
Overlijdensdatum
2019-08-02
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
France (birth)
Lithuania
Israel
Geboorteplaats
Paris, France
Plaats van overlijden
Tel Aviv, Israel
Woonplaatsen
Paris, France
Lodz, Poland
Vilna, Lithuania
Tel Aviv, Israel
Vienna, Austria
Beroepen
physiotherapist
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Mildred L. Batchelder Award (1999)
Korte biografie
Schoschana Rabinovici was born Suzanne-Lucienne Weksler -- known as Susie -- to Jewish parents studying in Paris, Isaukus and Raja Weksler. As a small child, she moved with her ​​parents to their hometown of Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, where the family owned a clothing store. The city was occupied by the Russians and then invaded by Nazi Germany in World War II. Her father was arrested in July 1941 and killed soon afterwards along with 5,000 other Jews. The rest of the family was forced into the Vilnius Ghetto. The Ghetto was liquidated by the Nazis in 1943. Susie, age 11, and her mother were sent to the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga and then to the Stutthof concentration camp in Danzig. Her mother helped her to survive by disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding extra food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. In February 1945, mother and daughter were taken on an 11-day death march to the Tauentzien camp, but survived to be liberated by the Red Army a month later. They recovered slowly and emigrated to Israel in 1950. Susie married David Rabinovici, a fellow survivor from Romania, with whom she had two sons, and took the Hebrew name Schoschana. She worked as a physiotherapist. In 1964, the family moved to Vienna, Austria. Her memoir was published in German as Dank meiner Mutter in 1994, and translated into English and published in 1998 as Thanks to My Mother. In 2013, she participated in the Holocaust eyewitness production The Last Witness at the Vienna Burgtheater, produced by her son Doron Rabinovici.

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As the title would have you suppose, the book is largely a tribute to the author's mother, Raja, who moved heaven and earth so Schoschana (then called Susie) could survive. The odds were stacked against them, particularly since Susie was a child, only eight years old when the war began. VERY few Jewish children survived the war, and most of those who did survived in hiding with gentile families or in institutions. Susie never went into hiding; although a kind former maid offered to take her, Raja couldn't stand to be separated from her. Somehow Raja pulled her through everything: smuggling Susie into camp in her backpack, giving up her own rations so Susie could eat, enlisting other camp inmates to crowd around her and hide her immature body in the bathhouses, etc. Susie somewhat repaid her mother's dedication by nursing her back to health after liberation, while Raja lay dying of typhus and a festering leg wound. Of the entire family, only Raja, Susie and one of Raja's brothers survived the war.

The narrative is matter-of-fact with no pretense at poetry or anything "literary" and direct without being graphic, and I think it would be good for middle school through adult readers. It's a pretty typical example of the Holocaust memoir genre, excepting that Susie and Raja were in some lesser-known camps, Kaiserwald and Stutthof. Recommended.
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meggyweg | 2 andere besprekingen | Jun 12, 2010 |
The author, whom at eight years old, illustrates her mother’s heroic love by drawing the reader into the dreadfulness of the Holocaust. Through words, you see the vivid transformation of the once resort with colorful flowers, rivers and beaches and walking paths transforming into the catastrophic, hellacious concentration camp, Kaiserwald. The photographs are also contributors in the shattering memoir of a mother’s attempt from keeping her entire family from total extermination.
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jasusc | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 30, 2008 |
NO OF PAGES: 246 SUB CAT I: Holocaust SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, Susie endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive--by disguising her as an adult, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes that you will never forget.NOTES: Donated by Gary and Angie Springer. SUBTITLE:… (meer)
 
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