Say The Name A Survivor's Tale In Prose And Poetry

"Judith Sherman got up from her years of memories, nightmares, private resistance, and public silence to write Say the Name, this book about her childhood, her imprisonment in Ravensbruck death camp, and her "liberation." She tells us she was armed by the "family injunction," a promise the family members made to each other "to survive/to live" as they were being sucked into what she calls the "primal night" of the Holocaust. She survived and now, thanks to her poetry and prose, her story survives. The chronological backbone of this book tells of her childhood home in Kurima, Czechoslovakia, several deportations, hiding in homes and in the forest, her struggles in several prisons including a converted castle, undergoing torture and witnessing murder in Ravensbruck, and her liberation."--BOOK JACKET.Sherman, Judith H. is the author of 'Say The Name A Survivor's Tale In Prose And Poetry', published 2005 under ISBN 9780826334312 and ISBN 0826334318.