The Lost Childhood: A Memoir
About this audiobook
This compelling memoir takes listeners through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck—never to be seen again. He, his mother, and sister fled to Warsaw to live in disguise as Catholics under the noses of the Nazi SS, constantly fearful of discovery and persecution. A sobering reminder of the personal toll of the Holocaust on Jews during World War II, this book is a harrowing portrait of one child’s loss of innocence.
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About the author
Dr. Yehuda Nir (1930–2014) was a highly-regarded psychiatrist with the Cornell University Medical Center and the Sloane Kettering Cancer Institute in New York City, where he specialized in trauma counseling of terminally ill children and their parents. Nir had many patients who were also survivors, or children of survivors, of the Holocaust, and who suffered from long-term trauma—what is now known as PTSD. An opera based on The Lost Childhood with music by Janice Hamer and libretto by Mary Azrael has been performed several times over the years, most recently in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. To learn more about Dr. Nir’s extraordinary life, visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/health/yehuda-nir-a-psychiatrist-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-at-84.html
Cynthia Ozick is the author of several books and a recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle winner for criticism.
Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.
