No Past Tense
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No Past Tense

Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust

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eBook - ePub

No Past Tense

Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust

About this book

No Past Tense is the biography of Katarina (Kati) Kellner and William (Willi) Salcer, two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, respectively. Covering their entire lives, weaving in first person "real time" voices, the unique structure of No Past Tense provides a distinctive "whole life" view of the Holocaust. The book begins with their childhoods, education in Budapest, and 16-year-old Kati meeting 19-year-old Willi in the Jewish ghetto in Plesivec, a Slovak village annexed by Hungary in 1938. After liberation from the camps they returned to discover most Jews were gone, and the villagers did not want them back. In defiance, Kati took up residence in a shed on her family's property, and in reclaiming what was hers, won Willi's heart. They lived as smugglers in post-war Europe until immigrating illegally to Palestine in 1946. In 1958, saying he did not want the children to know war, Willi convinced Kati to move to America.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Epigraph
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Prologue
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Hitler on the Radio: Summer 1938
  11. 2. Worried Mothers: 1939
  12. 3. Happy New Year: 1944
  13. 4. Back Home: 19 March 1944
  14. 5. Into the Ghetto: April 1944
  15. 6. Kati Meets Willi: April 1944
  16. 7. Harsher Reality: April 1944
  17. 8. Spoiled Little Girl: June 1944
  18. 9. Auschwitz: June-August 1944
  19. 10. No Escape: September-October 1944
  20. 11. Canary Girls: November 1944
  21. 12. This is Mauthausen: November 1944-March 1945
  22. 13. Walking to Czechoslovakia: March-May 1945
  23. 14. Liberation: April 1945
  24. 15. No-One Home: June 1945
  25. 16. Finding Lily: June 1945
  26. 17. Family Album: June 1945
  27. 18. Give Up the Shiksa: July 1945
  28. 19. Gardener’s Shed: August 1945
  29. 20. Polka Dot Dress: August 1945
  30. 21. Nice Jewish Girl: August 1945
  31. 22. In Remembrance: August 1945
  32. 23. Ghosts: August 1945 113 24. Uncle Pavel: September 1945
  33. 25. Marry Me, or Goodbye: October 1945
  34. 26. Hakshara: February 1946
  35. 27. Black Hat with Cherries: Summer 1946
  36. 28. Jewish Soldier: August 1946
  37. 29. Atlit: August-November 1946
  38. 30. We’re Here: November 1946-February 1947
  39. 31. It’s a Girl: February-September 1947
  40. 32. Too Much Beer: Fall 1947
  41. 33. Up on the Roof: November-December 1947
  42. 34. Building Tanks: December 1947-May 1948
  43. 35. Testing: Summer 1948
  44. 36. Water, Everywhere: Summer 1949
  45. 37. What Next?: 1950-1952
  46. 38. We’ll Build You a Factory: 1953
  47. 39. Crisis: 1954-1957
  48. 40. Going Down: 1958-1959
  49. 41. Europe to America: Winter-Spring 1960
  50. 42. First Year in America: 1960-1961
  51. 43. Job Hunt: 1961
  52. 44. Plastic Lace Tablecloths: 1961-1964
  53. 45. Naomi and the Gypsy: Summer 1968
  54. 46. Home Sweet Plesivec: Summer 1968
  55. 47. Jelsava and Back: Summer 1968
  56. 48. Young, Single and Free: 1975
  57. 49. Wander Years: 1977-1983
  58. 50. Telling: 1996-1999
  59. 51. The End: 2000-2001
  60. Epilogue