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No Past Tense is the biography of Katarina (Kati) Kellner and William (Willi) Salcer, two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, respectively. Covering their entire lives, weaving in first person ""real time"" voices, the unique structure of No Past Tense provides a distinctive ""whole life"" view of the Holocaust. The book begins with their childhoods, education in Budapest, and 16-year-old Kati meeting 19-year-old Willi in the Jewish ghetto in Plesivec, a Slovak village annexed by Hungary in 1938. After liberation from the camps they returned to discover most Jews were gone, and the villagers did not want them back. In defiance, Kati took up residence in a shed on her family’s property, and in reclaiming what was hers, won Willi’s heart. They lived as smugglers in post-war Europe until immigrating illegally to Palestine in 1946. In 1958, saying he did not want the children to know war, Willi convinced Kati to move to America.  He did not tell her that punitive tax fines, imposed when the government needed money due to the crisis in the Sinai, shook his faith in Israel. Once in America, after a few bad investments, Willi lost all their money and for the first time Kati suffered panic attacks. But Willi rebuilt his fortune, while Kati rediscovered her courage, and started living again.

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Author:   D.Z. Stone
Publisher:   Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
ISBN:  

9781912676101

ISBN 10:   1912676109
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   16 October 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Foreword Prologue Introduction 1. Hitler on the Radio: Summer 1938 2. Worried Mothers: 1939 3. Happy New Year: 1944 4. Back Home: 19 March 1944 5. Into the Ghetto: April 1944 6. Kati Meets Willi: April 1944 7. Harsher Reality: April 1944 8. Spoiled Little Girl: June 1944 9. Auschwitz: June-August 1944 10. No Escape: September-October 1944 11. Canary Girls: November 1944 12. This is Mauthausen: November 1944-March 1945 13. Walking to Czechoslovakia: March-May 1945 14. Liberation: April 1945 15. No-One Home: June 1945 16. Finding Lily: June 1945 17. Family Album: June 1945 18. Give Up the Shiksa: July 1945 19. Gardener's Shed: August 1945 20: Polka Dot Dress: August 1945 21. Nice Jewish Girl: August 1945 22. In Remembrance: August 1945 23. Ghosts: August 1945 24. Uncle Pavel: September 1945 25. Marry Me, or Goodbye: October 1945 26. Hakshara: February 1946 27. Black Hat with Cherries: Summer 1946 28. Jewish Soldier: August 1946 29. Atlit: August-November 1946 30. We're Here: November 1946-February 1947 31. It's a Girl: February-September 1947 32. Too Much Beer: Fall 1947 33. Up on the Roof: November-December 1947 34. Building Tanks: December 1947-May 1948 35. Testing: Summer 1948 36. Water, Everywhere: Summer 1949 37. What Next?: 1950-1952 38. We'll Build You a Factory: 1953 39. Crisis: 1954-1957 40. Going Down: 1958-1959 41. Europe to America: Winter-Spring 1960 42. First Year in America: 1960-1961 43. Job Hunt: 1961 44. Plastic Lace Tablecloths: 1961-1964 45. Naomi and the Gypsy: Summer 1968 46. Home Sweet Plesivec: Summer 1968 47. Jelsava and Back: Summer 1968 48. Young, Single and Free: 1975 49. Wander Years: 1977-1983 50. Telling: 1996-1999 51. The End: 2000-2001 Epilogue

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D.Z. Stone is a journalist with academic training in cultural anthropology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and Newsday.

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