TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weilbach,S.
TI  - Singing from the Darktime: A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose
SN  - 9780773586161
AV  - PR9199.4.W438 S56 2011 
U1  - 811/.6 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Weilbach, S.-Childhood and youth-Poetry
KW  - St. Louis (Ship)-Poetry
KW  - Jews-Germany-Biography-Poetry
KW  - World War, 1939-1945-Jews-Poetry
KW  - Jewish refugees-England-Poetry
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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