Every Day Lasts a Year

A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland

By: Christopher Browning (Editor), Nechama Tec (Editor), Richard S. Hollander (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 December 2007

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Author Richard S. Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1986. While rummaging through their attic, he discovered letters from a family he never knew - his father's mother, three sisters, and their husbands and children. The letters, neatly stacked in a briefcase, were written from Krakow, Poland, between 1939 and 1942. They depict day-to-day life under the most extraordinary pain and stress. At the same time, Richard's father, Joseph Hollander, was fighting the United States government to avoid deportation and death. Richard was astounded to learn that his father saved the lives of many Polish Jews, but - despite heroic efforts - could not save his family.

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STARRED REVIEW "Sustained personal documentation from those who lived and died in the Holocaust is rare. That makes this collection of letters a precious gift to historians." Publisher's Weekly "Browning and Nechama Tec offer a historical context, and Hollander tells how his family found strength through letters. This is an important human and literary document of a family facing the Holocaust." Booklist "Anyone interested in the Holocaust should read this powerful book, an inimitable, personal look inside the eve of 'all of the cruelty, mischief, evil, unhappiness, destruction and misery brought by them [the Nazis] on so many millions in the whole world' (35). Few documents written by the victims themselves survive today. Every Day Lasts a Year gives these victims a resounding voice." -Weny A. Maier-Sarti "Readers of M&R will find Every Day Lasts a Year touching, and exceptionally real. Put simply, the letters speak directly to us, reminding us of lives and hopes that once were..." -Dr. Diane Cypkin, Martydom & Resistance

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Geonocide & Ethnic Cleansing The Holocaust Regional & National History European History Biographies & True Stories Biographies Military History Second World War

Introduction and Acknowledgments	p. ix
People Frequently Mentioned in the Correspondence	p. xi
Photograph Gallery	p. xiv
Joseph's Story
Joseph	p. 3
Cracow
The Fate of the Jews of Cracow under Nazi Occupation	p. 45
Through the Eyes of the Oppressed	p. 60
The Letters
Letters without Reply: November 1939-May 1940	p. 103
Separation Anxiety: May-August 1940	p. 128
Exit Strategy: September-December 1940	p. 169
Familial Love, Penned: January-December 1941	p. 209
Index	p. 281
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A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland

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