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Driving to Treblinka : a long search for a lost father / Diana Wichtel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Wellington, New Zealand Awa Press 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: 278 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781927249406
  • 1927249406
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.5318 23
LOC classification:
  • D804.196.W53 W53 2017
Awards:
  • Okham New Zealand Book Award for General Non-Fiction, Longlist 2018.
Summary: Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who had jumped off a train to the Treblinka death camp and hidden from the Nazis until the end of the war. When Diana was 13 she moved to New Zealand with her mother, sister and brother. Her father was to follow. Diana never saw him again. Many years later she sets out to discover what happened to him. The search becomes an obsession as she painstakingly uncovers information about his large Warsaw family and their fate at the hands of the Nazis, scours archives across the world for clues to her father’s disappearance, and visits the places he lived. This unforgettable narrative is also a deep reflection on the meaning of family, the trauma of loss, and the insistence of memory. It asks the question: Is it better to know, or more bearable not to?
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Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Non Fiction 940.5318 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00764579

Includes index.

Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who had jumped off a train to the Treblinka death camp and hidden from the Nazis until the end of the war. When Diana was 13 she moved to New Zealand with her mother, sister and brother. Her father was to follow. Diana never saw him again. Many years later she sets out to discover what happened to him. The search becomes an obsession as she painstakingly uncovers information about his large Warsaw family and their fate at the hands of the Nazis, scours archives across the world for clues to her father’s disappearance, and visits the places he lived. This unforgettable narrative is also a deep reflection on the meaning of family, the trauma of loss, and the insistence of memory. It asks the question: Is it better to know, or more bearable not to?

Okham New Zealand Book Award for General Non-Fiction, Longlist 2018.

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