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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies Personal narratives Récits personnels |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fromer, Rebecca. House by the sea. San Francisco : Mercury House, ©1998 (OCoLC)607134706 Online version: Fromer, Rebecca. House by the sea. San Francisco : Mercury House, ©1998 (OCoLC)607156114 |
Named Person: | Elia Aelion; Elia Aelion; Elia Aelion; Elia Aelion; Elia Aelion |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Fromer |
ISBN: | 1562791052 9781562791056 |
OCLC Number: | 38856031 |
Description: | 162 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
Contents: | I. A dream has no master -- II. In war, law is silent -- III. The wolf sheds its hair, and not its hands -- IV. My departure is in the palm of my hand; my return is not -- V. A thousand worries don't pay a single debt -- VI. Neither rain without thunder, nor childbirth without pain -- VII. With patience, even grass can be made into silk -- VIII. The wolf and sheep appear in the same story -- IX. I run and run and find myself in one place -- X. In a time of hunger, no bread is bad -- XI. Within our clothes, our bodies cry -- XII. Weigh the gold, weigh the lead, weigh the man most of all -- XIII. Neither a bride without brows, nor a wedding without complaint. |
Responsibility: | Rebecca Camhi Fromer. |
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Abstract:
Relates the experiences of Elia Aelion, a Jew from Salonika born in 1918, as told to Fromer and written by her. In 1941 he fled to Athens; in 1943, when the Germans entered Athens, Aelion and his friends left the city for a suburb, where they lived for ten months in a villa whose owner agreed to rent part of it to Jews. In August 1944 they were discovered by the Germans; Aelion managed to evade arrest and to survive until the liberation. Many members of his family perished in the Holocaust. Includes a historical introduction (pp. 3-15) and notes by Fromer. Pp. 145-159 contain appendices, including a chronology of the Holocaust in Greece and statistical information on transports and the destruction of Jewish communities in Greece.
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