Was it Just a Matter of Luck?: A Family, the Holocaust, and the Founding of a Museum - Paperback
Was it Just a Matter of Luck?: A Family, the Holocaust, and the Founding of a Museum - Paperback
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by Charles Kaner (Author), Joy E. Stocke (Editor)
Intimate in voice and sweeping in historical reach, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? bears witness to the endurance of memory and the moral force of survival. Through the voice of his mother, Ray Kaner - a fiercely intelligent young woman who endured four years in the Lódź ghetto, brutal slave labor, and near death in Bergen-Belsen - Dr. Charles Kaner reconstructs her harrowing passage through the Holocaust and the sustaining power of sisterhood that helped her survive.
Interwoven with his own journey as a second-generation survivor, Kaner traces how Ray transformed unspeakable trauma into purpose. In postwar America, she became a quiet but determined force in the preservation of Holocaust memory, helping to establish one of the nation's earliest survivor-testimony projects and laying crucial groundwork for what would become the Museum of Jewish Heritage. At once a son's act of devotion and a profound historical reckoning, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? asks not only how one woman survived, but how survival itself became a legacy.
