1. History and Memory
The Fiftieth Gate, a non-fiction biography written by Mark Baker, and the film Everything Is Illuminated, directed by Liev Schreiber, both portray how personal recollections can challenge the traditional documented history of the Holocaust, colored by the biases and opinions of the author of the story. ... The Fiftieth Gate, written by Mark Baker, is a biography of Baker's parents' childhoods during the Holocaust, and combines their personal memory with documented history of the Holocaust. In this biography Baker uses water based imagery in "For my father, the rivers have not thawed,...
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- Approx Pages: 5
- Grade Level: Undergraduate