Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History

A sequel to her groundbreaking book, Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From is a daughter's memoir of her mother's family. Drawing on her journalistic training, the author demonstrates how documentary research can unearth family history and bridge the historical chasm of the Shoah. This book is at once a memoir, a family history and a social history of Central European Jews of the 19th and 20th centuries. The three generations of women she portrays are dressmakers; the fashion salon...