TY - BOOK AU - Eilati,Shalom AU - Lenz,Vern TI - Crossing the River SN - 9780817386825 AV - DS135 U1 - 940.53/18092 B PY - 2009/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Eilati, Shalom, -- 1933- KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Personal narratives KW - Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Biography KW - Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Biography KW - Kaunas (Lithuania) -- Biography KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. How It Began -- 2. Summer -- 3. Autumn -- 4. Winter -- 5. The Quiet Season/ Childhood in the Ghetto -- 6. Another Fall and Winter -- 7. Spring -- 8. Escape -- 9. On Green Hill -- 10. In the Village -- 11. Liberation -- 12. A New Year -- 13. Second Year/ Seven Journeys -- Epilogue: Back to the River -- Photographs N2 - Crossing the River is a personal memoir-and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania's occupation-first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians-it is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine.   The adult survivor, while recalling the terrorized child that he was and how he then perceived the adult world, also takes stock of his present life. Throughout the memoir, Eilati attempts to reconcile his present life as a husband, father, scientist, and writer, with the images, feelings, and thoughts from the past that have left an indelible mark on his life and that continue to haunt him UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1058160 ER -