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A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy
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Eric Lamet was seven when Nazi forces entered Vienna in 1938, and within days his family had been scattered. His father left for Poland and never came back, while his mother took the boy to Italy, where they moved from one hiding place to another, climbing ever deeper into the mountains to stay out of reach. In this memoir Lamet reconstructs the Italy of those years through the eyes of the frightened, lonely child he was. He describes the hardships faced by foreign Jews living under Mussolini's regime, the friendships he formed along the way, and the lengths his mother went to in order to build some kind of home for him. The tone is wry and humane rather than bitter. Few Holocaust memoirs deal with Jews sent into internal exile in Italy, and this book offers a rare, carefully remembered portrait of that experience.
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