{"product_id":"still-alive-a-holocaust-girlhood-remembered-9781558614369","title":"Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, \u003cem\u003eStill Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: \"a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight\" (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e). \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSwept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, \u003cem\u003eStill Alive\u003c\/em\u003e rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Among the reasons that \u003cem\u003eStill Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged, not merely as victims. . . . [Kluger] insists that we look at the Holocaust as honestly as we can, which to her means being unsentimental about the oppressed as well as about their oppressors.\" --\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Kluger (1931-2020) was a literary scholar, memoirist, and a professor emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. She previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Virginia, and was a guest professor in Gottingen, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe. As the author of five books of literary criticism, she also studied English literature, obtained a master's degree in 1952, and a PhD in 1967. Dr. Kluger survived internment at Auschwitz, fleeing a death march in 1945, eventually immigrating to New York, and beginning her lifelong work in academia and writing. After an accident-related days-long coma, Dr. Kluger was moved to recall long-repressed memories of the war, which served as the impetus for her memoir, \u003cem\u003eStill Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644568080658,"sku":"9781558614369","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ddda3106-1aef-4237-804f-2b040fa7206a.jpg?v=1733115499","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/still-alive-a-holocaust-girlhood-remembered-9781558614369","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}