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The story of one man s journey through three generations and five continents to find and heal a past he didn't know existed. In 1997, Martin Beck Matustík made a dramatic discovery at the age of forty: he was the child of a Holocaust survivor. His mother s shocking secret came from the most unlikely of places shoeboxes full of her literary and personal archives. These dramatic revelations changed his life forever and set him on a path to discover his true identity. His research unveiled his mother s remarkable life and the truth behind her painful decision to reject her Jewish heritage and keep it hidden from her family. Matustík's Out of Silence is an intensely personal Czech-Slovak-American Jewish journey into the past to understand the present and find hope for the future. Dealing with self-transformation, loss, memory, recovery, and the unsettling reality of living with multiple identities, Matustík s exhaustive research and selfless prose offer other children of survivors and the world at large a remarkable look inside one man s endeavor to repair the shattered map of his identity.
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Out of Silence, Martin Beck Matuštík
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- Out of Silence
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Martin Beck Matuštík
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 348
- ISBN10
- 0988373211
- ISBN13
- 9780988373211
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, World Literature
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
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- The story of one man s journey through three generations and five continents to find and heal a past he didn't know existed. In 1997, Martin Beck Matustík made a dramatic discovery at the age of forty: he was the child of a Holocaust survivor. His mother s shocking secret came from the most unlikely of places shoeboxes full of her literary and personal archives. These dramatic revelations changed his life forever and set him on a path to discover his true identity. His research unveiled his mother s remarkable life and the truth behind her painful decision to reject her Jewish heritage and keep it hidden from her family. Matustík's Out of Silence is an intensely personal Czech-Slovak-American Jewish journey into the past to understand the present and find hope for the future. Dealing with self-transformation, loss, memory, recovery, and the unsettling reality of living with multiple identities, Matustík s exhaustive research and selfless prose offer other children of survivors and the world at large a remarkable look inside one man s endeavor to repair the shattered map of his identity.