Burned Child Seeks The Fire
by Cordelia Edvardson
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Author: Cordelia EdvardsonTranslator: Joel Agee
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-07-30
ISBN: 0807070947
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Book Review: A powerful and moving memoir
Summary: 5 Stars
The author mesmerizes you with the simplicity and eloquence of her writing. She moves you with her childhood, her courage in the camps and the power of her spirit in returning to choose life again.
Summary of Burned Child Seeks The Fire
A European best-seller originally published in Sweden in 1987 and translated into English for the first time, the author's memoir of the Holocaust recounts how she gave herself up to the Gestapo in order to protect her mother."This unusual memoir is the story of a self-described "dark, pudgy, mean, defiant little brat," born in Berlin in 1929 of a half-Jewish mother and a Catholic father and sent to a concentration camp almost, it seems, as a bureaucratic formality. Raised Catholic, Cordelia Edvardson had little in common with her fellow inmates, some of whom despised her as a "German swine." Singled out for punishment, she was selected to act as a secretary for the monstrous "angel of Auschwitz," Josef Mengele. Impressionistic and naïve, Edvardson's third-person memoir retains a highly effective childlike quality ("she had learned that anything can happen, no matter what and no matter when, and for inexplicable reasons") that holds even in the most horrifying episodes. After World War II ended, Edvardson moved to Sweden, where this book was first published. She then converted to Judaism and moved to Israel.
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