LEADER 03646cam a2200469Ii 4500001 285699 005 20240622100920.0 008 220830s2022 ctuabcf 000 0 eng d 020 1942134827 020 9781942134824 035 (OCoLC)on1260291660 035 285699 049 LHMA 041 eng 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dTOH |dEZN |dNJK |dOCLCF |dLHM 090 DS134.62 |b.E37 2022 100 1 Eisen, Anna Salton, |eauthor. 245 10 Pillar of salt : |ba daughter's life in the shadow of the holocaust / |cAnna Salton Eisen. 264 1 Simsbury, CT : |bMandel Vilar Press, |c2022. 264 4 |c©2022 300 176 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, portraits, map ; |c23 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 520 "As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From early childhood, Anna, as a second-hand witness to the Holocaust, felt overwhelmed by the unspoken but ever-present trauma of her parents' past. Her father, born as Lucjan Salzman, survivor of ten different concentration camps, is enveloped in impenetrable grief and his history encased in secrecy. But Anna is determined to look backwards, breaking through her father's reticence to confront the unspoken terrors of the past. The entire Salton family embarks on a journey through Poland unlocking a history sealed in silence and buried by time. The Salton family's quest takes them to the towns where Anna's parents lived as children under Nazi occupation. The family returns to the ghetto where a 15-year-old Lucjan experienced his first selection and bid farewell to his parents before they were herded into a boxcar and sent to their deaths at the Belzec concentration camp. They continue their travels through the picturesque Polish countryside, still pockmarked by the remnants of former concentration camps and a spattering of Holocaust memorials. By the end of her odyssey, Anna acquires a new understanding of her legacy as a child of Holocaust survivors and how trauma is revisited upon subsequent generations. By revisiting those places of trauma with her father as her guide, Anna Salton Eisen's tour of terrors provide her with a new understanding of how her identity has been shaped under the shadow of the Holocaust. Anna confides that by looking back like Lot's wife, and by taking in the whole story, "I could carry the pain of the Holocaust and find there is more to me than a pillar of salt."--Amazon. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Eisen, Anna Salton. 600 10 Salton, George Lucius |xFamily. 650 0 Children of Holocaust survivors |zUnited States |vBiography. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. 600 17 Salton, George Lucius. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00475387 650 7 Children of Holocaust survivors. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00855272 650 7 Families. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00972484 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 700 1 Eisen, Aaron, |eauthor. 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS134.62 |i.E37 2022 852 0 |breceiving |kShelved at 48-2-8