{"product_id":"we-are-here-memories-of-the-lithuanian-holocaust-9780803230125","title":"We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust","description":"Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the \"Jerusalem of the North.\" As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he'd left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How does a nation--how do successor generations, moral beings--overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in \u003ci\u003eWe Are Here\u003c\/i\u003e, one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family's place in it.\u003cbr\u003eDigging through archives with the help of a local whose motives are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old man who wants to \"speak to a Jew\" before he dies; discovering the complications encountered by a country that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation--Cassedy finds that it's not just the facts of history that matter, but what we choose to do with them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803230125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.61w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Silver Medal Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/16\/2012 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ellen Cassedy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643636150428,"sku":"9780803230125","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fa575b83-bc0c-4cd9-98d9-d3c514eebe5a.jpg?v=1603856990","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/we-are-here-memories-of-the-lithuanian-holocaust-9780803230125","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}