The Cold Shower of a New Life: The Postwar Diaries of a Child Survivor, July 13, 1947–september 5, 1947 (7) - Hardcover

Bacon, Yehuda

9789653087187: The Cold Shower of a New Life: The Postwar Diaries of a Child Survivor, July 13, 1947–september 5, 1947 (7)

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ISBN 10: 9653087185 ISBN 13: 9789653087187

Verlag: Yad Vashem Publications, 2026

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These notebooks tell the story of a young survivor exploring his emotional and physical challenges after intense suffering, while discovering his strengths and abilities as he builds a life after the Holocaust. The writings reflect the author’s inner dialogue regarding the meaning of his existence, and his conversations, real and imagined, with his lost loved ones, contemporaries, and former fellow camp inmates with whom he shared his darkest hours. In this seventh volume of the series, which includes notebooks 13 and 14, written between July and September 1947, his early years in Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) are reflected. The entries cover his summer vacation, beginning with a stay in Tel Aviv—marked by discomfort with the climate, strained family relations, and criticism of materialism—and continuing with travels to kibbutzim, where he found comfort in nature and human connection.Back in Jerusalem, Bacon describes depressive episodes, financial difficulties, and self-doubt about his artistic development. These notebooks also reveal a deeper awareness of the long-term psychological effects of his Holocaust experiences. He uses the metaphor of a broken violin string to convey the emotional numbness and disconnection he feels. While political unrest in Eretz Israel during 1947 is occasionally mentioned, it is described in a restrained and factual tone

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World-renowned Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Bacon began keeping a diary in July 1945, while living in a youth home in Štir�n, Czechoslovakia, shortly after his liberation. During the past seven decades, Bacon has filled over 240 notebooks. His diary is a mosaic of words and drawings through which he remembers his past, contemplates his present, and imagines his future. Bacon was born in Moravsk� Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. In 1942, aged thirteen, he was deported with his family to Theresienstadt. In 1943 he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was interned in the family camp; a few months later, he was among a group of teens selected to work as forced laborers. Bacon survived death marches to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen before he was finally liberated, only to discover that his family had been murdered, aside from one sister who had left Czechoslovakia before the war. Upon his return to Czechoslovakia, Bacon lived in a provisionary youth home run by the humanist Premysl Pitter. In 1946, Bacon immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, later becoming a professor of graphics and drawing and achieving fame as an artist.

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