The Lost Childhood, Yehuda Nir
The Lost Childhood, Yehuda Nir
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The Lost Childhood
A Memoir

Author: Yehuda Nir, Cynthia Ozick

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2020

Synopsis

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.

About Yehuda Nir

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

About Cynthia Ozick

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.

About Robertson Dean

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicole

This book called The Lost Childhood is a very interesting book because it explains how many families had escaped this war where they lived.There’s this boy who was the narrative in the story and his family was a really wealthy family.The family didn't seem as scared as other families would be if the......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

I read this book, “The Lost Childhood” by Yehuda Nir, for a school assignment for ELA. I would recommend this book if you like reading about stories of the children holocaust survivors besides Anne Frank. This story is from the view of young Yehuda living as a Polish Jew through World War II. Not to......more

Goodreads review by Sophia

For me, this book was interesting and sad. I got a different perspective of World War II through the eyes of a boy and how he had to survive. The descriptions Yehuda Nir writes makes it seem like I was with him during the war. How he lived gave me the idea that some people were actually able to surv......more

Quotes

“Quite marvelous. I don’t remember reading anything that tells the story so matter-of-factly. Its very lack of hype makes it so frightening and compelling.” Hal Prince, Tony Award–winning producer

“For readers who have gone stale on the Holocaust, Nir’s record of a child pursued will reawaken fresh awareness, shock, understanding, and conscience.” Cynthia Ozick, National Book Award Finalist

“An extraordinary memoir.” New York Observer

“Marvelous…tells the story so matter-of-factly. Its very lack of hype makes it so frightening and compelling.” Hal Prince, Tony Award–winning producer and director

“Put[s] one in mind of great, understated writers like Hemingway and [Isaac Bashevis] Singer.” The Jerusalem Post

“An engaging, fact-paced Holocaust memoir.” Kirkus Reviews

“An unforgettable memoir of a resilient family.” Booklist

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