Biography of a Jewish doctor who survived and triumphed over the
horrors of the Holocaust. Eli's Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish
Life is first and foremost a biography. Its subject is Eli G.
Rochelson, MD (1907-1984), author Meri-Jane Rochelson's father. At
its core is Eli's story in his own words, taken from an interview
he did with his son, Burt Rochelson, in the mid-1970s. The book
tells the story of a man whose life and memory spanned two world
wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, the massive
upheaval of the Holocaust, and finally, a frustrating yet
ultimately successful effort to restore his professional
credentials and identity, as well as reestablish family life. Eli's
Story contains a mostly chronological narration that embeds the
story in the context of further research. It begins with Eli's
earliest memories of childhood in Kovno and ends with his death,
his legacy, and the author's own unanswered questions that are as
much a part of Eli's story as his own words. The narrative is
illuminated and expanded through Eli's personal archive of papers,
letters, and photographs, as well as research in institutional
archives, libraries, and personal interviews. Rochelson covers
Eli's family's relocation to southern Russia; his education,
military service, and first marriage after he returned to Kovno;
his and his family's experiences in the Dachau, Stutthof, and
Auschwitz concentration camps-including the deaths of his wife and
child; his postwar experience in the Landsberg Displaced Persons
(DP) camp, and his immigration to the United States, where he
determinedly restored his medical credentials and started a new
family. Rochelson recognizes that both the effort of reconstructing
events and the reality of having personal accounts that confi rm
and also differ from each other in detail, make the process of
gap-fi lling itself a kind of fi ction??an attempt to shape the
incompleteness that is inherent to the story. An earlier reviewer
said of the book, ""Eli's Story combines the care of a scholar with
the care of a daughter."" Both scholars and general readers
interested in Holocaust narratives will be moved by this monograph.
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