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After Long Silence by Helen Fremont is a powerful memoir about her discovery, as an adult lawyer, that her devout Catholic parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors living secret lives with false names, exploring the devastating impact of their hidden past, the family's "long silence," and her journey to uncover their harrowing survival stories (Siberian Gulags, concentration camps) and reclaim her own roots. It's a story of survival, identity, trauma, and the lengths people go to protect themselves and their loved ones, detailing how her parents taught her prayers in multiple languages as a survival tactic, not just religious devotion, and her eventual break from the imposed silence.
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