Laugh or Cry by Sylvia Hurst
This is a haunting rites of passage story of a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany. "Laugh or Cry" is the memoir of a talented young Jewish girl in Germany in the 1930s. Like many stories of adolescence, it is a journey from innocence to experience: the delights, the disappointments, the longings, the fears and the growth in self-knowledge that any teenager may experience. However, all this is observed in the context of the terrifying rise of the Nazi Party, the establishment of the Third Reich - and the catastrophe which overtook the Jewish community to which Sylvia belonged. The author sensitively communicates the subtlety with which the poison of Nazism infected even the most intelligent people. No-one wanted to believe what was happening, until, for many, it was too late. Sylvia Hurst (nee Fleischer) was lucky - she escaped the Holocaust. Her memoir does not describe the horrors of the death camps but it shows us how they came to be.
Sylvia Hurst was born in 1922 in Germany. She studied at the Jewish Fashion College until it was closed by the Nazis in 1938. In July 1939 Sylvia got a place on the Kinder Transport to England. She continued to study during and after the war while designing clothes for friends. Her reputation grew and Sylvia soon found herself designing for theatre as well as for the Harrods. Sylvia went on to lecture in design and became Head of Design at Tameside College. At the age of 60 she took over an inn in County Durham - until she finally retired at the age of 75. She continues to design - but now in stained glass.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846240645 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846240646 |
| Title | Laugh or Cry |
| Author | Sylvia Hurst |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Book Guild Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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