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Bella and Chaim

Story of Beauty and Life

By: Sara Rena Vidal

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Paperback | 15 November 2017

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296 Pages

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23.4 x 19.6 x 2.2

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Encompassing the inspirational story of Bella and Chaim, the author’s parents, with the intergenerational trauma of being a child of survivors, this memoir is of love, loss and gratitude; indeed a testament to the human spirit as well as a call to action.

Bella and Chaim met and fell in love in the Warsaw Ghetto where they witnessed the destruction of a way of life; sole survivors of both their families, they endured entombment for eighteen months before rescue, liberation, and immigration to begin a new life in Australia. Memory, historical records, fragments of Melbourne in the 1950s, and the honouring of the murdered and the righteous, mingle with real-time musings on the light, dark, and potential of being alive; ever present are the dilemma’s facing us today.

Industry Reviews

‘Pick of the Week’: “Sara Rena Vidal's imaginative story of her parents' war.”
Steven Carroll, Spectrum (The Age (Melbourne) & Sydney Morning Herald)

“...the author has used the power of multiple sources of words to conjure the immediacy of a vanished world. I haven’t read anything quite like it before.”
Lisa Hill, ANZLitLovers

“Wonderful book; deeply researched, scholarly, heartfelt and well written.”
Emeritus Professor Roger Fay, University of Tasmania

"This memoir... refuses to defer to hate and yearns to inspire a more humane future.”
Emeritus Professor Richard Freadman, LaTrobe University.

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