Description
No Past Tense is the biography of Katarina (Kati) Kellner and William (Willi) Salcer, two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, respectively. Covering their entire lives, weaving in first person "real time" voices, the unique structure of No Past Tense provides a distinctive "whole life" view of the Holocaust. The book begins with their childhoods, education in Budapest, and 16-year-old Kati meeting 19-year-old Willi in the Jewish ghetto in Plesivec, a Slovak village annexed by Hungary in 1938. After liberation from the camps they returned to discover most Jews were gone, and the villagers did not want them back. In defiance, Kati took up residence in a shed on her family's property, and in reclaiming what was hers, won Willi's heart. They lived as smugglers in post-war Europe until immigrating illegally to Palestine in 1946. In 1958, saying he did not want the children to know war, Willi convinced Kati to move to America.
Author: D. Z. Stone
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: 10/16/2019
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781912676118
ISBN10: 1912676117
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Jewish
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
Author: D. Z. Stone
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: 10/16/2019
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781912676118
ISBN10: 1912676117
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Jewish
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
About the Author
D.Z. Stone is a journalist with academic training in cultural anthropology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and Newsday.