House At Ujazdowskie 16

Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust

Author: Karen Auerbach Series: Modern Jewish Experience

Two generations rebuild their lives in Poland after the Holocaust

Presents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth, political faith and disillusionment, and the persistence of Jewishness redefined as an integral element of the post-war generation's Polishness

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Two generations rebuild their lives in Poland after the Holocaust

Presents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth, political faith and disillusionment, and the persistence of Jewishness redefined as an integral element of the post-war generation's Polishness

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In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish capital and created new communities as they sought to distance themselves from the memory of a painful past. Based on interviews with family members, intensive research in archives, and the families' personal papers and correspondence, Karen Auerbach presents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth, political faith and disillusionment, and the persistence of Jewishness.

Critic Reviews

“"This is an interesting and often moving tableau about the efforts of some wounded people to overcome their personal tragedies while redefining their communal loyalties." -Booklist”

"Filled with strongly drawn portraits of fascinating individuals... Auerbach's book is an immense work of retrieval. She expands the range of Polish history, of Jewish history, and of the borderlands between them." Michael Steinlauf, author of Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust

About the Author

Karen Auerbach is Kronhill Lecturer in East European Jewish History at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. A former journalist, she reported for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Star-Ledger of Newark, and the Forward.