{"id":6988,"date":"2009-03-01T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:53","slug":"look-what-grows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/01\/look-what-grows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vecsey reads Holocaust memoir sequel by Isaacson &#039;65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/vecsey-isaacson-neu-sokol-0179.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/vecsey-isaacson-neu-sokol-0179-400x267.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"vecsey-isaacson-neu-sokol-0179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last winter, Judith Isaacson &#8217;65, LL.D. &#8217;94 got to hear her own words during a reading at the Lewiston Public Library by Katalin Vecsey, who read selections from Isaacson&#8217;s <em>Seed of Sarah<\/em>, a memoir published in 1990 that recounted her Holocaust experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch Lichtenau concentration camps.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Vecsey, who like Isaacson is originally from Hungary, also read from Isaacson&#8217;s forthcoming sequel, to be published in German in a translation from English by Gerda Neu-Sokol, lecturer in German at Bates. One story in the new memoir tells of Isaacson traveling to Hungary in 1977 to research <em>Seed of Sarah<\/em> and meeting an elderly man on a train. As they spoke, the man discovered the reason for Isaacson&#8217;s visit. Silence then fell between them. Finally he haltingly revealed a secret never before shared with anyone: He had been a worker on the trains that brought Jews to the death camps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last winter, Judith Isaacson &#8217;65, LL.D. &#8217;94 got to hear her own words during a reading at the Lewiston Public Library by Katalin Vecsey, who read selections from Isaacson&#8217;s Seed of Sarah, a memoir published in 1990 that recounted her Holocaust experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch Lichtenau concentration camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,7,14,166,175,224],"tags":[10856,138,11003,10750,4212,5862,71,9365],"class_list":["post-6988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-faculty-staff","category-humanities-history","category-justice-poverty","category-society-culture","tag-bates-magazine","tag-education","tag-europe","tag-german-russian-studies","tag-holocaust","tag-memoirs","tag-theater","tag-writing2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88959,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions\/88959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}