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Children of Holocaust survivors Children of Holocaust survivors United States Biography Craniofacial dysostosis Patients Biography Craniofacial dysostosis Patients Biography Juvenile literature Families Fremont, Helen Fremont, Helen Family Health Henley, Ariel 1992- Health United StatesHenley, Ariel
Summary: At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HENFremont, Helen
Summary: "Helen Fremont's bestselling memoir, After Long Silence, published in 1991 and still very much in print, vividly recounts her discovery in adulthood that her parents were not Catholics, as she thought (having herself been raised in that faith), but Jewish Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020