Singing from the Darktime : A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (141 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 In Oma's House -- 2 Devoured at Night -- 3 The Boat that Did Not Sink -- 4 The Linoleum-Floored Room -- Translations -- Afterword -- Suggestions for Further Reading.
Singing from the Darktime is a compelling picture of a rural childhood in Germany at a time when the world was about to change. By 1937 Hitler's power was beginning to penetrate the peaceful agricultural village in the Rhine Valley where S. Weilbach lived with her family. Without warning, her carefree life became a scene of bewildering racial abuse, followed by the violent invasion of her home, the arrest of her father, and the disappearance of her beloved grandmother. Weilbach's story of her eventual flight and concealment reveals how children in crisis retreat into imagination, reliving past happiness.
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Weilbach, S.-Childhood and youth-Poetry. St. Louis (Ship)-Poetry. Jews-Germany-Biography-Poetry. World War, 1939-1945-Jews-Poetry. Jewish refugees-England-Poetry.