Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood

by Nechama Tec

Overview

This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to "pass" in the forbidding Christian world and a quietly moving coming-of-age story. This book is unique celebration of the best human qualities that surface under the worst conditions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195035001
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/01/1984
Series:	Galaxy Book Series , #772
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	499,794
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	960L (what's this?)

Editorial Reviews

"A compelling account. Quite accessible."—Michele Bisbey, St. Vincent College

"A beautifully written and poignant account of what it was like for a young girl to be passing as a Gentile in Nazi-occupied Poland."—Evan Hunter

"Dry Tears moves me beyond words....[It] conveys an immediate sense of what [living under the Holocaust] was like, and does so strongly, even nobly, without a trace of self-pity....My admiration has no bounds."—Robert K. Merton, Columbia University

"Render[s] with such honest yet compassionate detail the struggle of Jews to 'pass' as Christians among anti-Semitic people who sheltered them, loved them, lived off them, and finally, after the war, were ashamed rather than proud of having taken [them] in."—Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University

"A story of human resilience...made all the more remarkable because it is seen through the eyes of a young girl who bore herself beyond the promise of her years."—Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations

"This essentially optimistic view was nuanced with a perhaps surprisingly wry wit." — Benjamin Ivry, Forward Newspaper

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