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After a lifetime spent steadfastly ignoring her parents' accounts of their struggle for survival in World War II Poland, novelist Lisa Appignanesi played the "ultimate generation game" as her mother's increasing old age impelled her to discover the truth about her family's past. Growing up as part of an immigrant Jewish family in Canada, she had recoiled at "the implicit message...that you could live through terrible things and come out at the other end to sip a glass of tea or Schnapps". Yet years later she found herself en route to Poland to "excavate" for herself the story of her parents' amazing endurance--and to reclaim her family history.
Appignanesi's parents Hena and Aron, together with her older brother and maternal grandmother, had escaped certain death in the Warsaw ghetto by tenacity, audacity (especially on the part of her mother)- -and the ultimate suppression of their Jewish identity. To this end they were helped out enormously by the heroism and sacrifices of individuals and in particular by Hena's mysterious, fabled brother Arek, who disappeared from view in 1943. Losing the Dead swings effortlessly between Appignanesi's comedic childhood reminiscences, her tireless search through Polish archives and registers for forgotten identities and the dramatic, immediate narrative of her family's day-to-day existence in the terrifying war years. It is a story of loss and deprivation, yet ultimately one of profound understanding, as Appignanesi resurrects her past in order to lay it to rest, proving that Losing the Dead is a truly commemorative memoir.--Catherine Taylor
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In wartime Poland, false identities are essential for a Jewish family struggling to survive outside the camps. But, for the author's family, safe in Canada after the war, subterfuge and fear of authority have become a way of life, and the boundaries between truth and fiction blur. In an effort to impose order on fragments of memory and sort the lies from the truth, the author visits Poland to search for clues to her real family history. This is a story of disguises, loyalty, daring escapes and lives ruled by constant fear. The recurring themes of memory, truth and the refugee's need for roots, are set against the author's ambivalent relationship with her mother, the heroine of all her own tales and the consummate survivor. (Kirkus UK)
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