The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
by Daniel Mendelsohn

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
Edition: Perfect Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-09-19
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: HarperCollins

Book Reviews of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Book Review: When you try to understand what familyroots are..read this book!
Summary: 5 Stars

This story, a concentrated research about what has been happening to family members in the past was one of the best ever read. Not only because it was very well written and in itself an almost nerve-wrecking story, but there is so much more in the book.
The writer makes clear that whatever happened in the past in your family-history links to your own time and life and you have to deal with that. And there is much more.
S.Pereira

Summary of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust, an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood.
Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book). And you can watch his own moving introduction to the book in this short video:


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