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No Past Tense: A Memoir of Love and Survival During the Holocaust - Inspiring True Story for History Buffs & Book Clubs
No Past Tense: A Memoir of Love and Survival During the Holocaust - Inspiring True Story for History Buffs & Book Clubs

No Past Tense: A Memoir of Love and Survival During the Holocaust - Inspiring True Story for History Buffs & Book Clubs

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No Past Tense is the biography of Katarina (Kati) Kellner and William (Willi) Salcer, two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, respectively. Covering their entire lives, weaving in first person "real time" voices, the unique structure of No Past Tense provides a distinctive "whole life" view of the Holocaust. The book begins with their childhoods, education in Budapest, and 16-year-old Kati meeting 19-year-old Willi in the Jewish ghetto in Plesivec, a Slovak village annexed by Hungary in 1938. After liberation from the camps they returned to discover most Jews were gone, and the villagers did not want them back. In defiance, Kati took up residence in a shed on her family’s property, and in reclaiming what was hers, won Willi’s heart. They lived as smugglers in post-war Europe until immigrating illegally to Palestine in 1946. In 1958, saying he did not want the children to know war, Willi convinced Kati to move to America.

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I recieved the book, No Past Tense, yesterday. I finished reading it in two days. I would have read it in one day but life gets in the way. It is one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I could not put it down and now feel so close to the Salcer's, as if I was there while they were being interviewed . That is how well written this book is. It is a very powerful book on a subject that like the book says , never should have a past tense . D.Z. Stone, should be congratulated for conveying theirexperiences so realistically as to bring the reader into they're home and their life as they are telling their story. I would highly recommend this book to anyone. You know when you are reading a well-written book, when your mind can escape the surroundings that it is in , and feel like you are truly experiencing the parts of the book that you are reading. It is both an educational narrative and a truly heartfelt love story, which left me emotionally drained and close to tears many times.
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