Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana

This compelling work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Through Levy's tale, Lawrence Powell connects the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they built in the United States and shows how their experiences as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. more

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Posted: May-26-2004

The Klansman and the little old Holocaust survivor

Troubled Memory is the story of the Skorecki family, which survived the Hoocaust by escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto and going into hiding, intertwined with an accessible history of the Warsaw Ghetto. But is is also the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, 45 years later and transplanted to Louisiana,...

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Posted: Apr-22-2004

A Synthesis of the Holocaust

I am a student at Tulane University and have taken a seminar with Dr. Powell on the Holocaust. This book is the last book that he included on the syllabus for the course, and I understand fully how and why he wrote this book. At first I was a bit leery of his inclusion of his own work in the...

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Posted: Feb-26-2002

A Voice of Righteous Rage

This story chronicles the survival of small Jewish girls who were hidden in an armoire by their desperate parents in the closing days of the Warsaw ghetto. It easily matches the personal resonance and innocent terror of the far more famous Anne Frank Story.Even after their final liberation as...

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Posted: Oct-20-2000

a tour de force of writing.....

I read books on the Holocaust to try to understand the times, the mileu, the horror, and the suffering. After more than 20 books, I realize that I can only scratch the surface. I will, however, never stop reading because of my fear that someday the deniers and the downgraders might get the...

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Posted: Sep-08-2000

a wonderful mix of memory and history

Lawrence Powell set out to write a book about the David Duke phenomenon, about how a KKK leader and Nazi could sit in the Louisiana legislature and run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. But work on the book took him in another direction after he interviewed Anne Levy, a Holocaust survivor...

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Posted: Jun-22-2000

A Unforgettable Story

By the bearest of margins the Skorecki family survived Nazi Poland. This was due to the heroism and resourcefulness of the parents. They were the only one or one of the few families that survived the Warsaw ghetto intact and stayed together throughout the war passing on the Christian side....

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