New Book Edited by Professor Dan Magilow, MFLL
In Her Father’s Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust, edited by Daniel Magilow, Assistant Professor of German, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, has just been published by Rutgers University Press.
In Her Father’s Eyes: A Slovak Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust shows what the Holocaust took away through the story of a young girl whose uncanny affinities to Anne Frank make her easily recognizable. In 1929, Béla Weichherz, a traveling salesman from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, began an illustrated diary about his new daughter, Kitty. In this diary, which he kept throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, he recorded countless details about all aspects of her life. But soon after the Holocaust began, Béla’s journal ended, and neither Kitty nor her parents survived. This exhibition tells the story of an entire life in the days before and during the Holocaust. It remains a powerful and poignant document of daily life in Europe on the eve of Hitler’s Final Solution.
In Her Father’s Eyes: A Slovak Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust will run from October 6, 2008 to December 2, 2008 on the first floor of John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, 37996.