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This memoir contains many fascinating vignettes about pre-war
childhood in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, a child's-eye-view of
the lost world of East European Jewry. It tells the tormented story
of the Kovno ghetto as seen by a youngster whose father was a
leading figure in the medical life of the ghetto. The author then
recounts the long, harsh journey of entering the gates of Dante's
Inferno into the whirlpool of the Holocaust to Stutthof and Dachau
and moves on to describe his liberation. The author also provides a
full and fascinating focus on the post-war years: recovery,
organizing education in Italy, and the struggles of starting a new
life in the United States, including the high point of obtaining
the release of the author's parents from the Soviet Union at the
height of the Cold War. Jack Brauns has written a most personal and
engaging tale. Not only is it a powerful factual narrative, but it
is also an uplifting one that rises above the cruelties and
savageries of the H
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