Mosaic : A Chronicle of Five Generations

by Armstrong, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780312305109
• ISBN10: 0312305109
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-14
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

Starting in Krakow, Poland in 1890, and spanning more than one hundred years, five generations, and four continents, "Mosaic is Diane Armstrong's moving account of her remarkable, resilient family. This story begins when Daniel Baldinger divorces the wife he loves because she cannot bear children. Believing that "a man must have sons to say Kaddish for him when he dies," he marries a much younger woman, and by 1913, Daniel and his second wife Lieba have eleven children, including six sons. In this richly textured portrait, Armstrong follows the Baldinger children's lives over decades, through the terrifying years of the Holocaust, to the present. Based on oral histories and the diaries of more than a dozen men and women, "Mosaic is an extraordinary story of a family and one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage.

Author Biography

Diane Armstrong was born in Poland and emigrated to Australia with her parents in 1948. A freelance journalist, her work has been published in newspapers and magazines in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Holland, Hungary, Poland, New Zealand, and South Africa, and she has won a number of international prizes for her articles. She lives in Sydney, Australia.