"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 ... Read moreand 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 Show Less