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    'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes': Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
    'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes': Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
    'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes': Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
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    'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes': Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story

    By Irene Levin Berman

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    Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway. Her first conscious recollection of life goes back to 1942, when as a young child she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War II, to avoid annihilation. Germany had invaded Norway and the persecution of two thousand Norwegian Jews had begun. Seven members of her father's family were among the seven hundred and seventy-one unfortunate persons who were deported and sent to Auschwitz.

    In 2005, Irene was forced to examine the label of being a Holocaust survivor. Her strong dual identity as a Norwegian and a Jew led her to explore previously unopened doors in her mind. This is not a narrative of the Holocaust alone, but the remembrance of growing up Jewish in Norway during and after WWII. In addition to the richness of both her Norwegian and Jewish cultures, she ultimately acquired yet another identity as an American.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateMar 16, 2010
    ISBN9780761850120
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      This book accomplishes much: in less than 200 pages the author is able to cover the little-known story of the Holocaust in Norway, her own family's Holocaust story (some escaped to Sweden, some were killed), the postwar years, and what it's like to have the triple identity of a Jewish Norwegian-American. And she's able to pull this off seamlessly where a lesser writer wouldn't have been able to hold all those elements together.

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