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...feel that my life as a professional academic is well-known, but I have had difficulty in the past sharing the events of my traumatic adolescence,” said Lerner, who spent her childhood in Nazi-occupied Austria before escaping to the United States...
...child of a middle-class Viennese Jewish family, Lerner was a teenager when the fascist regime came to power in Austria in 1934. She became engaged in the underground student resistance movement, but when the Nazi takeover later forced her and her family into exile, she alone escaped to the U.S. to join the radical leftist party and embark on her academic career...
...painful to relive the experiences of my childhood, but I did not want to live the rest of my life in a closet of my own making. I have come out of that closet in Fireweed,” Lerner said...
Presenting her life in the context of the major historical events of the twentieth century, Lerner recounted a story of moral courage and a commitment to social change. Excerpts of her selected experiences stressed the importance of having the courage to live according to one’s convictions, especially in the face of hardship, hopelessness and brutality...
After emigrating to the U.S. with just five dollars in her pocket, Lerner struggled through the Great Depression and spent decades in grassroots organizations. She credits her fascination with women’s history and her revolutionary academic achievements in the field to the experiences of her childhood and adolescence...