“This slim vol­ume is a memo­r­i­al to what was lost in the Holo­caust. … Born Klara Alter, Thérèse (Ter­ri) Mas­son com­posed her own Kad­dish, at once prayer of mourn­ing for her fam­i­ly and her tes­ti­mo­ny as a sur­vivor. … Her daugh­ter has edit­ed it and filled in numer­ous miss­ing pieces…  all of which enhance the sto­ry of a remark­able woman who sur­vived a geno­cide and, late in life, sum­moned the courage to recount every­thing she had faced.” 

— Gila Wertheimer, Jewish Book Council

“Within the vast, ever-increasing Holocaust literature, Thérèse C. Masson’s childhood memoir stands out. My Kaddish is a compelling, intriguing testimony. … [It] is a ‘lighthouse’ that provides guidance for Holocaust research, education, and remembrance. … My Kaddish depicts the landscapes of [Thérèse’s] early childhood, transforming them into memorial sites. Visual images and sensory triggers link the past and present… What finally emerges is a striking self-analysis which not only illustrates how this childhood memoir has been constructed but also reveals the psychological burdens and damage of a child survivor. My Kaddish is an important and challenging autobiographical account of the trauma, the wounds, Thérèse experienced as a child during the Holocaust—wounds which never healed and that shaped her postwar life.”

— Emeritus Professor Dr. Konrad Kwiet, Sydney Jewish Museum, from the preface

Foreword, by Simone Masson

Preface, by Konrad Kwiet

Historical Timeline

1. The Beginning

2. The Warsaw Ghetto

3. Umschlagplatz

4. The Aryan Side

5. Powązki

6. The Bunker

7. Escape

8. Return

Epilogue: Life after the War

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Afterword. “Her Kaddish: Contextualizing Thérèse C. Masson’s A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto: My Kaddish,” by Elżbieta Janicka

“Recollections of Terri,” by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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