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"She finished every hem with lace seam binding." A fitting ending to the Sidonia's Thread series of memoirs about a mother and daughter who create a life in America after the ashes of the Holocaust "A dynamic story of historical significance...The alternate reality is beautifully written."--Barbara Bergren, author of Witness For My Father Sidonia's Seam Binding is the last book in the Sidonia's Thread trilogy. In this latest volume, Hanna Perlstein Marcus finally describes how she developed her own life's ambitions and behavioral style apart from her designer and dressma>Combined with an expansive look back into her Hungarian ancestry, devastated by the Holocaust, the author discovers parts of her persona and lifestyle that she never recognized before. As she explores her experiences, emotions, aspiratons, imagination, and heritage, she understands all the elements so mixed to produce the distinctive human qualities of her nature.

How does a young girl search for a benevolent father figure and suitable husband for her single mother among a group of Holocaust survivors? Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus sequel to her award-winning memoir, Sidonias Thread. Surviving Remnant recreates the authors childhood community of ambitious, humorous, and resilient immigrant refugees who occupy an apartment building, eager to adapt to their new homeland and build new lives for themselves and their children in the aftermath of the Holocaust.Along her hapless search for a father, Marcus becomes a fanatical Brooklyn Dodgers fan, a misguided violinist, a somnambulist, a neurotic, a hopeless matchmaker, and noted fashion model for her mothers stunning designs.Marcus experiences growing up with her mother in an enclave of Holocaust survivors portray a story no one knowsuntil now. Surviving Remnant is an authentic look at a moving immigrant saga from deep inside.