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This unusual memoir is the story of a self-described "dark, pudgy, mean, defiant little brat," born in Berlin in 1929 of a half-Jewish mother and a Catholic father and sent to a concentration camp almost, it seems, as a bureaucratic formality. Raised Catholic, Cordelia Edvardson had little in common with her fellow inmates, some of whom despised her as a "German swine." Singled out for punishment, she was selected to act as a secretary for the monstrous "angel of Auschwitz," Josef Mengele. Impressionistic and naïve, Edvardson's third-person memoir retains a highly effective childlike quality ("she had learned that anything can happen, no matter what and no matter when, and for inexplicable reasons") that holds even in the most horrifying episodes. After World War II ended, Edvardson moved to Sweden, where this book was first published. She then converted to Judaism and moved to Israel.
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YA. The year is 1943 and Cordelia is forced to make a life-changing decision. The Gestapo has discovered that her mother has been hiding Cordelia's partly Jewish heritage. The woman will be tried for treason or Cordelia can admit that she is Jewish. Her decision sends her to Auschwitz. As a child, Cordelia was raised as a Catholic and takes comfort in her faith during her time in the concentration camp. After liberation, her outlook on her Catholic faith and on life is never the same. Edvardson writes in a compelling and dramatic manner. Readers will find themselves not only rooting for Cordelia's survival in the concentration camp but also her survival as a human being. This story will not be soon forgotten.?Stacey M. Keeley, Sherwood Regional Library, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This unusual memoir is the story of a self-described "dark, pudgy, mean, defiant little brat," born in Berlin in 1929 of a half-Jewish mother and a Catholic father and sent to a concentration camp almost, it seems, as a bureaucratic formality. Raised Catholic, Cordelia Edvardson had little in common with her fellow inmates, some of whom despised her as a "German swine." Singled out for punishment, she was selected to act as a secretary for the monstrous "angel of Auschwitz," Josef Mengele. Impressionistic and naïve, Edvardson's third-person memoir retains a highly effective childlike quality ("she had learned that anything can happen, no matter what and no matter when, and for inexplicable reasons") that holds even in the most horrifying episodes. After World War II ended, Edvardson moved to Sweden, where this book was first published. She then converted to Judaism and moved to Israel.
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YA. The year is 1943 and Cordelia is forced to make a life-changing decision. The Gestapo has discovered that her mother has been hiding Cordelia's partly Jewish heritage. The woman will be tried for treason or Cordelia can admit that she is Jewish. Her decision sends her to Auschwitz. As a child, Cordelia was raised as a Catholic and takes comfort in her faith during her time in the concentration camp. After liberation, her outlook on her Catholic faith and on life is never the same. Edvardson writes in a compelling and dramatic manner. Readers will find themselves not only rooting for Cordelia's survival in the concentration camp but also her survival as a human being. This story will not be soon forgotten.?Stacey M. Keeley, Sherwood Regional Library, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home by Vijay Agnew on page 89, and page 103
- Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust (Children's Literature and Culture (Routledge (Firm)), V. 16.) by Bosmajian on page 139, and page 149
- Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis by Daniel B. Silver in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma by Ana Douglass in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter Writing, 1750-2000 by Caroline Bland on page 247, and page 251
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