Memory is Our Home is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma
Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I grew up during the
interwar period and who after escaping the atrocities of World War II was able to survive in
the vast territories of Soviet Russia and Uzbekistan.Translated by her own daughter
interweaving her own recollections as her family made a new life in the shadows of the
Holocaust in Communist Poland after the war and into the late 1960s this book is a rich
living document a riveting account of a vibrant young woman's courage and endurance.A
forty-year recollection of love and loss of hopes and dreams for a better world it provides
richly-textured accounts of the physical and emotional lives of Jews in Warsaw and of survival
during World War II throughout Russia. This book narrated in a compelling unique voice
through two generations is the proverbial candle needed to keep memory alive.
