The Rescue of Memory Author:Cheryl Pearl Sucher For Rachel, the Holocaust was always as close as her father's bedroom closet. Buried there were the fading photographs and dusty film reels of survivors: images of hopeful young Jewish couples on their wedding day; the vitality of Rachel's mother before she succumbed to a latent disease contracted in the camps; and Rachel's father, with gentle e... more »yes full of love despite the horrors they had seen.
This is a novel of surviving in a family of survivors. Growing up in 1960's New York, Rachel is torn between a warning to "never forget" the past and a desire to remember the promise of her own future as a woman.« less