{"product_id":"when-memory-comes-the-classic-memoir","title":"When Memory Comes: The Classic Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA classic of Holocaust literature  the eloquent  acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian  now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud  Four months before Hitler came to power  Saul Friedlnder was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939  seven-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France  where they lived through the German Occupation  until his parents ill-fated attempt to flee to Switzerland. They were able to hide their son in a Roman Catholic seminary before being sent to Auschwitz where they were killed. After an imposed religious conversion  young Saul began training for priesthood. The birth of Israel prompted his discovery of his Jewish past and his true identity.  Friedlnder brings his story movingly to life  shifting between his Israeli present and his European past with grace and restraint. His keen eye spares nothing  not even himself  as he explores the ways in which the loss of his parents  his conversion to Catholicism  and his deep-seated Jewish roots combined to shape him into the man he is today. Friedlnders retrospective view of his journey of grief and self-discovery provides readers with a rare experience: a memoir of feeling with intellectual backbone  in equal measure tender and insightful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949289435189,"sku":"ByrdShop_1635420504","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781635420500_ab4739ab-f08e-4b11-a479-57948814e621.jpg?v=1770252899","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/when-memory-comes-the-classic-memoir","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}