LEADER 04417cam a2200637 i 4500001 279639 005 20240621234818.0 008 200127s2020 nyuac 000 0aeng 010 2020520745 020 9789493056237 |q(paperback ; |qalkaline paper) 020 9493056236 |q(paperback ; |qalkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)on1137796579 035 279639 042 lccopycat 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 NHM |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCL |dLHM 050 00 D805.5.R38 |bH47 2020 100 1 Hess, Natalie, |d1936- |eauthor. 245 10 Remembering Ravensbrück : |bHolocaust to healing / |cNatalie B. Hess. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |bAmsterdam Publishers, |c[2020] 300 xiii, 283 pages : |billustrations, portraits ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 8 In her luminousand engrossing memoir, Natalie Hess takes us from a sheltered childhood in a small town in Poland into the horrors of the Holocaust. When her parents are rounded up and perish in the Treblinka concentration camp, a Gentile family temporarily hides six-year-old Natalia. Later, protected by a family friend, she is imprisoned in her city's ghetto, before she is sent to a forced-labor camp, and finally, Ravensbrück Concentration camp, from which, at nine, she is liberated. Taken to Sweden, by the Swedish White Cross busses, she adapts to and grows to love her new home, becoming a "proper Swedish School girl", until, at sixteen, she is claimed by relatives and uprooted to Evansville, Indiana. There, she must start over yet again, mastering English, and ultimately earning a PhD in literature. As a married young mother, she and her husband move to Jerusalem where they and their three children experience life as Israelis, including the bombing of their home during the Six Day War. Back in the States, they settle into life in Arizona until Natalie's husband dies unexpectedly when a teenager runs a stop sign and hits his car. In her grief, Natalie moves to Philadelphia to be with her daughter and discovers that life still holds surprises for her, including love. Hess's compelling portrait in which terror is muted by gratitude and gentle humor, shares the story of so many immigrants dislocated by tyranny and war. Through her experience as a child separated from her parents, a teenager, young woman, wife, mother, college professor, and later a widow, Hess shows the power of the human spirit to survive and thrive. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Hess, Natalie, |d1936- 610 20 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, American. 650 0 Internment camp inmates |zGermany |zRavensbrück |vBiography. 650 0 Nazi concentration camp inmates |zGermany |zRavensbrück |vBiography. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland |vPersonal narratives. 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust |vPersonal narratives. 610 27 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00723827 650 7 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00982706 650 7 Concentration camp inmates. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00872923 651 7 Poland. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01206891 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 Germany |zRavensbrück. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01226105 600 17 Hess, Natalie, |d1936- |2nli 610 27 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) |2nli 650 7 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |2nli 650 7 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, American. |2nli 650 7 Concentration camp inmates |zGermany |zRavensbruck |vBiography. |2nli 650 7 Holocaust survivors |vBiography. |2nli 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 647 7 World War |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 655 7 Personal narratives. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423843 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Personal narratives |vAmerican. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01424071 655 7 Autobiographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Personal narratives. |2lcgft 852 0 |bscstacks |hD805.5.R38 |iH47 2020