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[[File:Shalom Eilati.jpg|thumb|250px|Sahalom reunited with his father, [[Israel Kaplan]], in Munich in March 1946]]
== Title ==
 
 
* KEYWORDS : <[[Kovno Ghetto]]> <[[Hidden Children]]> -- <Russia> <Israel>
* MEMOIRS : ''Crossing the River'' (1999)
 
== Biography ==
 
Shalom Kaplan Eilati was born in 1933 in Kovno, Lithuania. He was the son of Israel Kaplan, one of the first Holocaust scholars. He immigrated to Palestine in 1946.
 
== Book : ''Crossing the River'' (1999) ==


* '''‏לחצות את הנהר''' <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999). English ed. '''Crossing the River''' (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008).
* '''‏לחצות את הנהר''' <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999). English ed. '''Crossing the River''' (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008).
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== Abstract ==
== Abstract ==
[[File:Shalom Eilati.jpg|thumb|250px|Shalom reunited with his father, [[Israel Kaplan]], in March 1946 in Munich, Germany]]


"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."--Publisher description.
"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."--Publisher description.

Revision as of 10:37, 22 February 2022

Title

  • ‏לחצות את הנהר <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999). English ed. Crossing the River (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008).

Abstract

Shalom reunited with his father, Israel Kaplan, in March 1946 in Munich, Germany

"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."--Publisher description.

Contents

How it began -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter -- The quiet season/childhood in the ghetto -- Another Fall and Winter -- Spring -- Escape -- On green hill -- In the village -- Liberation -- A new year -- Second year/seven journeys.

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