Running from Home: A Memoir

By Rita B. Ross

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	List Price: $32.00   Paper 0-7618-4562-3 / 978-0-7618-4562-1   Aug 2009 230pp European customers click here

"The remarkable story details her family's 7-year-journey to elude capture, from the time of the Vienna Anschluss to the war's end, assuming false identities and eventually arriving at Ellis Island, with yet another unexpected and poignant twist."—World Jewish Congress Foundation,
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Running from Home chronicles Rita's flight from the Nazis as it was perceived by a young child. The sense of bewilderment, loss of home, and suffering from hunger and cold create an indelible mark upon her mind and do not leave when she eventually comes to America. Raised in different cultures, she never feels at home but is always the outsider, trying to reconcile her old life and experiences with her new surroundings. Her youth and adolescence are assaulted by the demons that have been imprinted on her young brain. Furthermore, Rita's father suffers from his own demons: financial insecurity, disenfranchisement, and constant poverty serve to reestablish her old fears and sense of loss. For Rita, the war is not over when the peace treaties have been signed.

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About the Author
Rita Ross was born in Vienna, Austria two years before Hitler's troops stormed the country. She spent the war years hiding her Jewish identity and came to America in 1945. She taught at the Perlman Jewish Day School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania for 27 years and is a frequent lecturer on her Holocaust experiences and the need for tolerance.

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