Suzanna Eibuszyc received degrees from the City College of New York where she studied with Elie Wiesel and the University of California. She lives in Los Angeles.
"Memory is Our Home is an important book for many reasons, not the
least of which is that our Holocaust survivors, older and more
fragile as the years go by, soon will no longer be with us. As one
historian starkly reminds us, the twenty-year old who survived
Auschwitz is now nearly ninety. This means that for us Jews
specifically and for humanity in general, we are about to lose our
eye-witnesses, something that could reduce the memory of the
Holocaust to the back pages of history. That's why Suzanna
Eibuszyc's efforts at not only recounting her mother's story but
her determination to share it with the world are so vitally
important. In the vast library of Holocaust literature, several
books hold our attention and Memory is Our Home is one of them. Ms.
Eibuszyc tells her mother's story with words that touch our hearts
and create an indelible album of what happened to one family and
how Nazi horrors shaped their lives. As our survivors pass on,
Memory is Our Home will live in our hearts, reviving the spirit of
those who suffered so while superbly maintaining Holocaust
literature in the place of prominence it deserves". -- Rabbi
Barbara Aiello, Serrastretta, Calabria, Italy
"This is an important autobiography, the kind one seldom finds
nowadays. It is a rare intellectual treat how Roma eloquently
intertwines her personal and family history with the prevailing
general, socio-political conditions and popular workers` movements
of the Jews in Poland. We learn in minute details, without them
becoming dull or boring, what life was like for her poor
working-class family with a widowed, single mother who together
with one son became the main breadwinners. Her descriptions are so
vivid that one can actually touch the poverty and feel her immense
loss when her mother dies-twice. Roma Talaszowic-Ejbuszyc has
written a most compelling and illuminating memoir. In her
straightforward style, she encompasses life in its totality. It is
highly recommended." -- Judy Weissenberg Cohen, editor of Women and
the holocaust
"This Memoir fascinates from the early paragraphs. Rarely has a
book been written that pencils so bleak a portrait of the Poland
that had been cloaked in the secrecy of life under Germany`s iron
fist. Even for those who lived those years in the rest of occupied
Europe it presents an unfamiliar, stark black and white vision of
hell." -- Rudy Rosenberg, author of "And Somehow We Survive"
"This book is such a tremendous accomplishment. The small details
of Eibuszyc's mother s survival constantly amazed me. Powerful in
its simplicity, the pages are all about the smallest things-the
details about finding shelter, surviving cold and hunger, and how
much a person can take. The importance of not forgetting, or
ensuring that the Jewish legacy survives, that the Jewish culture
and contribution to Poland are not erased." -- Marcy Dermansky,
Author of the "Bad Marie"
"SUZANNA EIBUSZYES BOOK IS A DEEPLY MOVING AND POIGNANT memoir
written by a daughter based on her mothers diaries. The book is an
example of life writing at its finest. It situates the
horrificexperiences of a family in the broader historical context
and recovers the continuity of a biographical narrative of the
family and community, ensuring that the memories of the unspeakably
tragic past are not forgotten...Memory is Our Home underscores the
importance of remembering and giving voice to victims in order to
restore their dignity by validating their memories. The book
powerfully conveys the need and responsibility to preserve ones
identity and heritage and to tell the story of a once-vibrant
cultural life destroyed in the course of the Holocaust. Equally
important, it also calls upon readers to keep the memory of past
atrocities alive as a way of preventing future injustices." - Tanya
Narozhna, University of Winnipeg, Europe-Asia Studies 69/7
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