A Childhood, al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in War-Torn Italy
Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.\ In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew...
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Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna—and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland—and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother's valiant efforts to make a home for him.In a style as original as his story, the author vividly recalls a dark time yet imbues his recollections with humor, humanity, and wit. Very few Holocaust memoirs address the plight of Jews sent into internal exile in Mussolini's Italy. Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait, one you will not soon forget.
Foreword Risa Sodi vii\ Chapter 1 Escape from Vienna 1\ Chapter 2 Poland-My Extended Family 23\ Chapter 3 Milan 31\ Chapter 4 Settling Down 43\ Chapter 5 Paris 53\ Chapter 6 Nice 57\ Chapter 7 San Remo 71\ Chapter 8 Mother Goes to the Hospital 85\ Chapter 9 Our New Home on the Hill 93\ Chapter 10 Internment 105\ Chapter 11 Getting Settled 119\ Chapter 12 Religion in Our Lives 143\ Chapter 13 Moving to Our Apartment 159\ Chapter 14 New Internees Arrive 175\ Chapter 15 Our First Winter 183\ Chapter 16 Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa 209\ Chapter 17 A Letter from Omama 217\ Chapter 18 Keeping Myself Occupied 225\ Chapter 19 A New Suit 239\ Chapter 20 Don Antonio 261\ Chapter 21 Pietro Russo is Freed 269\ Chapter 22 Tragedies and Grief 281\ Chapter 23 Lello is Born 285\ Chapter 24 Pierce's Betrayal 299\ Chapter 25 The German Occupation 305\ Chapter 26 Montevergine 327\ Chapter 27 The Battle for Salerno 345\ Chapter 28 Normalizing Our Lives 355\ Chapter 29 Life in America 367\ Epilogue 373\ Glossary 383\ People Interned in Ospedaletto 389
