- Summary
- No Past Tense is the biography of Katarina Kellner and William Salcer, two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, respectively.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Stone, D. Z., author.
- Published
- Elstree, UK ; Chicago, Illinois : Vallentine Mitchell, 2019
©2019
- Locale
- Czech Republic
- Contents
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Hitler on the radio: summer 1938
Worried mothers: 1939
Happy New Year: 1944
Back home: 19 March 1944
Into the ghetto: April 1944
Kati meets Willi: April 1944
Harsher reality: April 1944
Spoiled little girl: June 1944
Auschwitz: June-August 1944
No escape: September-October 1944
Canary girls: November 1944
This is Mauthausen: November 1944-March 1945
Walking to Czechoslovakia: March-May 1945
Liberation: April 1945
No-one home: June 1945
Finding Lily: June 1945
Family album: June 1945
Give up the shiksa: July 1945
Gardener's shed: August 1945
Polka dot dress: August 1945
Nice Jewish girl: August 1945
In remembrance: August 1945
Ghosts: August 1945
Uncle Pavel: September 1945
Marry me, or goodbye: October 1945
Hakshara: February 1946
Black hat with cherries: Summer 1946
Jewish soldier: August 1946
Atlit: August-November 1946
We're here: November 1946-February 1947
It's a girl: February-September 1947
Too much beer: Fall 1947
Up on the roof: November-December 1947
Building tanks: December 1947-May 1948
Testing: Summer 1948
Water, Everywhere: Summer 1949
What Next?: 1950-1952
We'll Build You a Factory: 1953
Crisis: 1954-1957
Going Down: 1958-1959
Europe to America: Winter-Spring 1960
First year in America: 1960-1961
Job hunt: 1961
Plastic lace tablecloths: 1961-1964
Naomi and the gypsy: Summer 1968
Home sweet Plesivec: Summer 1968
Jelsava and back: Summer 1968
Young, single and free: 1975
Wander years: 1977-1983
Telling: 1996-1999
The end: 2000-2001.
- Notes
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"Based on testimony by William and Katarina Salcer."
Hitler on the radio: summer 1938 -- Worried mothers: 1939 -- Happy New Year: 1944 -- Back home: 19 March 1944 -- Into the ghetto: April 1944 -- Kati meets Willi: April 1944 -- Harsher reality: April 1944 -- Spoiled little girl: June 1944 -- Auschwitz: June-August 1944 -- No escape: September-October 1944 -- Canary girls: November 1944 -- This is Mauthausen: November 1944-March 1945 -- Walking to Czechoslovakia: March-May 1945 -- Liberation: April 1945 -- No-one home: June 1945 -- Finding Lily: June 1945 -- Family album: June 1945 -- Give up the shiksa: July 1945 -- Gardener's shed: August 1945 -- Polka dot dress: August 1945 -- Nice Jewish girl: August 1945 -- In remembrance: August 1945 -- Ghosts: August 1945 -- Uncle Pavel: September 1945 -- Marry me, or goodbye: October 1945 -- Hakshara: February 1946 -- Black hat with cherries: Summer 1946 -- Jewish soldier: August 1946 -- Atlit: August-November 1946 -- We're here: November 1946-February 1947 -- It's a girl: February-September 1947 -- Too much beer: Fall 1947 -- Up on the roof: November-December 1947 -- Building tanks: December 1947-May 1948 -- Testing: Summer 1948 -- Water, Everywhere: Summer 1949 -- What Next?: 1950-1952 -- We'll Build You a Factory: 1953 -- Crisis: 1954-1957 -- Going Down: 1958-1959 -- Europe to America: Winter-Spring 1960 -- First year in America: 1960-1961 -- Job hunt: 1961 -- Plastic lace tablecloths: 1961-1964 -- Naomi and the gypsy: Summer 1968 -- Home sweet Plesivec: Summer 1968 -- Jelsava and back: Summer 1968 -- Young, single and free: 1975 -- Wander years: 1977-1983 -- Telling: 1996-1999 -- The end: 2000-2001.
