In Search of Truth:
In Search of Truth:
An Interview with Helen Epstein
Author(s): Annalisa CosentinoSubject(s): Jewish studies, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Summary/Abstract: professor at New York University, was writing the first part of a trilogy. Helen Epstein, born in Prague in 1947 to survivors of Terezín and Auschwitz, grew up in New York City, as her parents left Czechoslovakia after the communist takeover of 1948: ‘In February of 1948, there was a Communist coup. Kurt saw the Communists as Nazis in a different color uniform and was determined to get out. My prescient father had applied for an American visa right after returning to Prague from koncentrák and with the help of relatives in New York, we flew out of Prague and joined the Czech refugee community there’ (Epstein 2017, p. 25).
Journal: Slovo a smysl
- Issue Year: 18/2021
- Issue No: 38
- Page Range: 141-146
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English