- Summary
- This memoir, Bella and Chaim, is a flowing collage which embraces and mingles memory, historical record, fragments of the 1950s, real-time journal entries and musings on the light, dark, and potential, of being alive. The whole is a testament to the human spirit. For eighteen months from late 1943, Vidal's parents lay in a small hole in the ground under a wood cutting machine in the backyard workshop of a retired Polish policeman in a suburb of occupied Warsaw. In claustrophobic dark, they waited while outside a world war raged. Their story is inspirational; it begins with life in Warsaw in loving families, transcends the catastrophic circumstances in which they meet, fall in love, are witness to the destruction of a way of life and the murder of their entire families, endure entombment, and concludes with liberation, and immigration to make a new life.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Vidal, Sara Rena, 1945- author.
- Published
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : Hybrid Publishers, 2017
©2017
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Australia
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index.
