Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
In this presentation, Katharina Menschik, a former Archival Assistant at LBI, provides a short introduction to author Eva Kollisch's biography.
Born in Vienna in the 1920s, Kollisch was sent as a teenager on a 1938 Kindertransport to England. She then was able to come to the United States, where the family was reunited. The author writes about these experiences, as well as growing up in the world of left-wing politics and culture in New York, finding her way as a writer, literary critic, teacher pacifist, and feminist. Unswervingly, she examines the traces that persecution and rejection have left on both her and those around her. Written as a series of essays, The Ground Under My Feet is a meditation on being a survivor. Grace Paley described the book as “…beautifully written. It has more history in it than most historians give us.”
In this presentation, Katharina Menschik, a former Archival Assistant at LBI, provides a short introduction to author Eva Kollisch's biography.
Born in Vienna in the 1920s, Kollisch was sent as a teenager on a 1938 Kindertransport to England. She then was able to come to the United States, where the family was reunited. The author writes about these experiences, as well as growing up in the world of left-wing politics and culture in New York, finding her way as a writer, literary critic, teacher pacifist, and feminist. Unswervingly, she examines the traces that persecution and rejection have left on both her and those around her. Written as a series of essays, The Ground Under My Feet is a meditation on being a survivor. Grace Paley described the book as “…beautifully written. It has more history in it than most historians give us.”
