title: Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss
author:  Mindy Weisel 
description: "An impressive and revealing collection of writings of the children of Holocaust survivors. It is also an homage to Holocaust survivors...a gift from the children of those survivors to their parents andto the millions who died. With moving, uplifting prose that recounts how the daughters of survivors transform a legacy of shadow into the artistic light of movies, art, photographs, poems, novels, and lives, <i>Daughters of Absence</i> is a powerful, life-affirming read and a strongly recommended addition to Holocaust studies reading lists and reference collections." - Midwest Book Review<br /><br />"Each in her own genre, these 'daughters of absence' trace--with great skill, great courage, and great candor--their journey from a ghost-ridden past to a fulfilling present." - Peter Novick, author of <i>The Holocaust in America</i>, professor of history at The University of Chicago<br /><br />"Mindy Weisel and the other daughters of Holocaust survivors have provided us with extraordinary insights. The solemn beauty of their sagas and the triumph over the past is a gift to their parents, who survived and rebuilt their lives, and to those millions who did not." - Susan Tumarkin Goodman of the Jewish Museum New York<br /><br />"Explores the pain of daughters of the Holocaust." -- Newsweek.com<br /><br />"[Mindy Weisel's] feelings spilled out in watercolor on her paintings. She came to know other survivors' daughters who had overcome the particular emotional stuntedness by creating art. Weisel asked 12 of them to write essays, which she has collected in a new book, 'Daughters of Absense: Transforming the Legacy of Loss.'" -- Washington Post
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  Daughters of Absence
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Transforming a Legacy of Loss
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mindy Weisel, Editor
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dream of Things
  
  
  
  
  
  Downers Grove Illinois USA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Who can return the violated honor of the self? I cannot claim that art is all
  powerful magic, or pure faith, but one virtue cannot be denied it: its loyalty
  to the individual, its devotion to his suffering and fears, and the bit of
  light which occasionally sparkles within him …”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Aharon Appelfeld,
  
  
  
  
  
  Beyond Despair
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Sensitivity to separation, feelings of mourning and guilt, the desire to
  protect their parents and suffering people in general, are common threads
  running through the fabric of the lives of survivors’ children. They share
  feelings of excessive anxiety, bereavement, over-expectation and over-
  protection.”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dina Wardi,
  
  
  
  
  
  Memorial Candles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  