|
![]() Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for IdentityThis book is based on my memoirs as a refugee from WW2. I was 2 years old when my family and I escaped from Belgium and traveled through France during the war, leaving Europe to Brazil with fake diplomatic visas and smuggled into Argentina, where I spent two years in a convent. My arrival in the United States as a teenager and all that entailed is all in the first part of the book. In the second part of the book, I cover more general issues that many immigrants experience such as Survivors’ Guilt, the process of assimilation, the plight of the adolescent immigrant, and the struggle for national identification. [read more…] |