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03057aam a2200361 a 4500 001 2BE60210E2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130702010114 008 110808s2012 nbuabj b 000 0deng 010 $a 2011032474 020 $a 0803230125 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780803230125 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)746316086 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BWX $d CDX $d UPM $d VP@ $d VLR $d SILO 043 $a e-li--- 050 00 $a DS135.L5 $b C37 2012 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Cassedy, Ellen. 245 10 $a We are here : $b memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust / $c Ellen Cassedy. 260 $a Lincoln : $b University of Nebraska Press, $c c2012. 300 $a 273 p. : $b ill., maps, geneal. table ; $c 22 cm. 505 0 $a Here, on this spot -- The Nazi era -- The Soviet era -- The bystander -- Our goal is to transform ourselves -- An indelible memory and an unhealing scar -- Jewish ways of learning -- Landsman -- I helped what I can -- From the archives -- At the gate -- Leaving the Jerusalem of the north -- Voices of the Shavl Ghetto -- The bystander and the Jewish policeman -- Important dates in Lithuanian history. 541 $a UNI: Supported by funds from the Norman Cohn family Holocaust remembrance fund. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the 'Jerusalem of the North.' As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How does a nation--how do successor generations, moral beings--overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in We Are Here, one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family's place in it. Digging through archives with the help of a local whose motives are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old man who wants to 'speak to a Jew' before he dies; discovering the complications encountered by a country that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation--Cassedy finds that it's not just the facts of history that matter, but what we choose to do with them."--p. [4] of cover. 650 0 $a Jews $z Lithuania $x History. 600 10 $a Cassedy, Ellen $x Travel. 651 0 $a Lithuania $x Description and travel. 651 0 $a Lithuania $x Ethnic relations. 941 $a 2 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508020232.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20130702020829.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2BE60210E2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search