Saving the Tremors of Past Lives ― A Cross-generational Holocaust Memoir

Author Regina Grol is a professor of Polish and East European Studies. Here, she tells the story of her parents’ survival during the Holocaust, drawing on letters, historical documents, and interviews with family members. Grol’s father escaped from the Warsaw ghetto, and her mother was one of only 10 surviving residents of a Jewish community in Poland; both of the author’s parents were the only ones of the entire families to survive. Grol reflects on how the trauma of the Holocaust impacted later generations of the family. B&w historical photos are included. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Regina Grol (PhD State University of New York-Binghamton) has taught Polish studies and is currently a fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at the University of North Caroline-Chapel Hill. She has been a professor of comparative literature at Empire State College, State University of New York, and a visiting professor at Rutgers University and Hunter College of CUNY. In addition to numerous critical essays, her publications include several bilingual poetry volumes, including the anthology Ambers Aglow: Contemporary Polish Women’s Poetry 1981-1995 (1996) and her translation of And Yet I Still Have Dreams, by Joanna Wiszniewicz (2004).