The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (85 page)

Daniel Mendelsohn was born on Long Island and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. He is a frequent contributor to the
New York Review of Books
as well as the
New York Times Magazine
and
the New York Times Book Review
, and is a contributing editor at
Travel + Leisure
. His first book,
The Elusive Embrace
, was named a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year and a
Los Angeles Times
Best Book of the Year. He teaches at Bard College.

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THE LOST.
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ePub edition September 2006 ISBN 9780061448721

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The lost: a search for six of six million/Daniel Mendelsohn.
p. cm.
ISBN-10: 0-06-054297-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-054297-9

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following institutions and individuals for permission to reproduce photographs and to quote from documents in their possession:

Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Permanent Exhibition; the Jewish Museum in Prague; Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem; Lane Montgomery; and Henryk Jaronowski.

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