Parting with Yesterday

Frances Daitch tells the reader in poignant detail about her journey in 1938 from the small but enlightened town of Kobryn in Poland to her arrival in America and there encountering the many wonders of New York City. In her vivid recollections of shtetl life in Poland during the years just prior to its destruction by the Germans during the Holocaust, she describes most movingly the people she knew in Kobryn, both Jew and gentile, as well as the subsequent events that touched upon her...
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Frances Daitch tells the reader in poignant detail about her journey in 1938 from the small but enlightened town of Kobryn in Poland to her arrival in America and there encountering the many wonders of New York City. In her vivid recollections of shtetl life in Poland during the years just prior to its destruction by the Germans during the Holocaust, she describes most movingly the people she knew in Kobryn, both Jew and gentile, as well as the subsequent events that touched upon her long life, now extending well into her nineties.