Volume 49, Number 17 · November 7, 2002
Surviving
By Gabriele Annan
In Lands Not My Own: A Wartime Journey
by Reuben Ainsztein
Random House, 228 pp., $24.95
Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth
by Victor Brombert
Norton, 334 pp., $25.95
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
by Ruth Kluger, with a foreword by Lore Segal
The Feminist Press, 214 pp., $24.95
Trains of Thought and In Lands Not My Own—both titles have a melancholy sound. Both are memoirs of East European Jews in flight from Hitler at the outbreak of World War II; and both the authors end up as members of the Allied forces, Victor Brombert in the American Army and Reuben Ainsztein in the RAF. Though their stories cover much of the same ground (literally), they are very different.
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