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The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy Of Two Families, One Home (2008)

by Erin Einhorn(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416558306 (ISBN13: 9781416558309)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Touchstone

review 1: Picked this up because I'd heard the author's piece on This American Life, which ends inconclusively, and I had to find out what happened. As it turns out, the book also ends (somewhat) inconclusively, but is still a fascinating read. The most interesting parts for me were the author's attempt to untangle memory, family legend, and "fact" as found in the spotty archival record. I didn't always like the author (mainly because of a lie she tells for initially understandable reasons and then maintains for way too long), but appreciated honesty and willingness to lay it all out, warts-and-all.
review 2: American journalist Erin Einhorn delves into her family history, especially her mother's, and unearths ugly truths about the past and present, all centering around ... morethe upheaval during the Holocaust. Initially wanting to trace information about her mother's birth in a Jewish ghetto in WWII Poland, and the family home that was left behind during the war, she encounters a clash of past and present, and various interpretations about what actually happened 60 years earlier. The story itself is very interesting, as well as Einhorn's experiences searching for family history in modern Poland. But there was such an underlying feeling of hate, prejudice, and distrust on all sides of the tale, that I found it hard liking ANY of the main folks involved, including Einhorn herself. less

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