"The Ground Under My Feet is a wonderful book, beautifully written. It has more history in it than most historians give us."
THE GROUND UNDER MY FEET
In autobiographical stories and essays, Eva Kollisch, rescued in childhood from the Nazis by a Kindertransport, deals with the themes of anti-Semitism, uprooting, outsiderdom, and search for community. She unflinchingly traces the marks which persecution and exclusion leave on the mind and soul. There is also at the end a note of joy, when the author finds friendship with three childhood Austrian classmates she had once considered her enemies.
-- GRACE PALEY
GIRL IN MOVEMENT: A Memoir
A young woman's story set in the United States where no battles take place. The author, a retired professor of German language and literature, came to the U.S. as a teenager, fleeing Hitler. In a search of belonging and rational understanding of the world, she joined a small left-wing political party and spent the war years experimenting with Marxism, factory work, making love, getting married, running away, and learning about the limits and depths of friendship.
"Kollisch leads the reader into the picturesque world of American socialism during the early forties. It is almost a literary time capsule which is being opened before our eyes ... [Her] search for socialism was at the same a search for the self ... Kollisch writes this story of her early adult life with wit and wisdom, with irony and sincerity, an exemplary memoir of a movement which also moves the reader."
-- WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
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