{"product_id":"the-state-of-dark-9781843518501","title":"The State of Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe State of Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving memoir telling of a Second Generation survivor, as the Holocaust continues to be a living presence in European life and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 13 October 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: The Lilliput Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in silences and whispered conversations, Judith had little information about the hundreds of her family members who had died in the camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile training as a classical singer and performing all over the world, she was continually confronted with the Holocaust. After working with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, DBE, she discovered that the great German soprano had been a long-time member of the Nazi party and mistress of Hans Frank, the 'Butcher of Poland', entertaining German troops in Poland while 163 members of Judith's family were being murdered in Auschwitz and Sobibor. Over 100,000 Jews from Holland were killed in the Nazi camps, including the diarist Anne Frank, who befriended Judith's aunt Saar in Auschwitz in 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA phone call made from her Dublin home in 2017 leads to Judith's discovery, in shocking and intimate detail, of the terrible fate of her family. \u003cem\u003eThe State of Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving, beautifully-written memoir of a Second Generation survivor, as the Holocaust continues to be a living presence in European life and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 500g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 216 x 136 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781843518501\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Judith Mok","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44102514802938,"sku":"9781843518501","price":11.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1666969784065_book.jpg?v=1667505369","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/the-state-of-dark-9781843518501","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}