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This book reconstructs the wartime trajectory of the author’s father, who, as a seven-year-old Jewish child, fled Czechoslovakia for Paris, Toulouse, and ultimately Switzerland, where he survived the war. Drawing on letters, family documents, and...
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This book reconstructs the wartime trajectory of the author’s father, who, as a seven-year-old Jewish child, fled Czechoslovakia for Paris, Toulouse, and ultimately Switzerland, where he survived the war. Drawing on letters, family documents, and photographs, it combines personal narrative with research in Swiss, French, and Czech archives. Accessible to a broad readership, it is also well suited for courses on the Holocaust and twentieth-century European history. By foregrounding the process of archival recovery, the book highlights the challenges of reconstructing individual lives from fragmentary sources, while offering a nuanced perspective on memory, displacement, and the long-term impact of war.
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Price: $79.00
Pages: 318
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Cherry Orchard Books
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9798897835096
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, The Holocaust, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Historiography, Biography: general, Social & cultural history
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“The book weaves together historical narrative with the author’s own story of travel, research, and discovery, illustrating the process with maps, photographs, and scanned documents. A clear portrait of the Seidler family emerges. It shows us the complex and tenuous position of European Jewry both before and after the Holocaust. Some of Golding’s relatives perished; others survived. All are de-scribed with a care and intimacy that brings their stories back to life.”

—Sean McEnroe, Professor of History, Southern Oregon University, author of From Colony to Nationhood in Mexico: Laying the Foundations, 1560–1840


“At a time when Holocaust denial and antisemitism are again on the rise, this book offers a vital act of remembrance—preserving what can still be known, and bearing witness where silence once prevailed.”

—Petr Antonín, translator of Measure of a Man, by Martin Greenfield and Imminent, by Luis Elizondo


“Marianne Seidler Golding takes us on a dizzying and thought-pro-voking personal journey that begins with World War II and con-cludes in the present day. Golding writes not only about her family, but also about the people they encountered and the scholars she met while pursuing her research.” 

—Sylvie Blum-Reid, Professor of French and European Studies, University of Florida, author of East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature

Marianne Golding earned her Ph.D. in French Literature from UCLA and taught at Southern Oregon University for twenty-five years. Her research focuses on autobiography, Francophone literature and film, and Holocaust studies. She has published on language pedagogy and translation and has recently conducted archival research on the Holocaust in France, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.

Foreword  

Notes to the Reader  

Family Tree  

Chapter One: Brno and the First Separation (1932-1939)  

Chapter Two: Emigrants and Refugees  

Chapter Three: Victims of Theft and Violence  

Chapter Four: Letters from Brno  

Chapter Five: A Second Separation (1939-1940)  

Chapter Six: Hide-and-Seek in Toulouse (1942-1943)  

Chapter Seven: Larade and the Quakers (1942-1943)  

Chapter Eight: Menachem and His Family

Chapter Nine: Ron Friend and His Family

Chapter Ten: Hide-and-Seek at the Swiss Border (1943)

Chapter Eleven: The Swiss Years (1943-1945)

Chapter Twelve: Family Fate Unknown

Chapter Thirteen: Liberation of a Town . . . and a Name

Chapter Fourteen: Irmi Seidler

Chapter Fifteen: The Postwar Struggles

Chapter Sixteen: Brno

Chapter Seventeen: The South and the North

Chapter Eighteen: Catching Missed Stitches

Chapter Nineteen: “Now I know why I fought so hard” (Hélène, 1989)

Epilogue

Annexes

I. Characters

II. Map of France

III. Partial Seidler and Lustig Family Tree

IV. Appendices

V. Timeline of Emigration and Labor Decrees

Acknowledgments