'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes'
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'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes'

Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story

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eBook - ePub

'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes'

Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story

About this book

Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway. Her first conscious recollection of life goes back to 1942, when as a young child she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War II, to avoid annihilation. Germany had invaded Norway and the persecution of two thousand Norwegian Jews had begun. Seven members of her father's family were among the seven hundred and seventy-one unfortunate persons who were deported and sent to Auschwitz.

In 2005, Irene was forced to examine the label of being a Holocaust survivor. Her strong dual identity as a Norwegian and a Jew led her to explore previously unopened doors in her mind. This is not a narrative of the Holocaust alone, but the remembrance of growing up Jewish in Norway during and after WWII. In addition to the richness of both her Norwegian and Jewish cultures, she ultimately acquired yet another identity as an American.

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Information

Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780761850120
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction: Why Norway Wasn’t Too Small
  3. Chapter 1: The Escape
  4. Chapter 2: Refugees in Exile
  5. Chapter 3: Those Who Came First—The Levin Family
  6. Chapter 4: Those Who Came First—The Selikowitz Family
  7. Chapter 5: The Family That ā€˜Disappeared’
  8. Chapter 6: War and Holocaust
  9. Chapter 7: The Silence
  10. Chapter 8: Return from Exile
  11. Chapter 9: Learning How To Be a Norwegian Jew
  12. Chapter 10: On Marrying a Jew
  13. Chapter 11: Life in America
  14. Chapter 12: The Myth about the Danish King
  15. Chapter 13: Identity
  16. Chapter 14: The Journey into the Past