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Where She Came From is a memoir in the form of a quest for personal and historical understanding - a multi-generational saga with the sweep and emotional impact of a novel. After the death of her mother, Frances, in 1989, Helen Epstein set out to research and reconstruct the life of her mother and that of her grandmother and great-grandmother. Like so many children of Holocaust survivors and other people displaced by the catastrophes of the twentieth century, she had few family documents, only stories
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Where She Came from, Helen Epstein
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Where She Came from
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Helen Epstein
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 322
- ISBN10
- 0316246085
- ISBN13
- 9780316246088
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Czech Literature, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Military History, American Literature, World War II, Gifts for women, Gifts for grandma, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish Literature, Women's Biographies, Sagas, Searching in the Past
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- Where She Came From
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Where She Came From is a memoir in the form of a quest for personal and historical understanding - a multi-generational saga with the sweep and emotional impact of a novel. After the death of her mother, Frances, in 1989, Helen Epstein set out to research and reconstruct the life of her mother and that of her grandmother and great-grandmother. Like so many children of Holocaust survivors and other people displaced by the catastrophes of the twentieth century, she had few family documents, only stories