Sing This at My Funeral
Sing This at My Funeral In 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. Just over thirty-seven years later, his son Charles died of a heart attack. A Holocaust…
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Sing This at My Funeral
In 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. Just over thirty-seven years later, his son Charles died of a heart attack. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two sons had been murdered at the Nazi death camp in Chelmno, Poland, Jakub had lived a turbulent life.
This is a story about the Holocaust and its aftermath, about absence and the scars that never heal, and about fathers and sons and what it means to raise young men.In Sing This at My Funeral, tragedy follows the Slucki family across the globe: from Jakub's early childhood in Warsaw, where he witnessed the death of his parents during World War I, to the loss of his family at the hands David Slucki's Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons tells the story of his father and his grandfather, and the grave legacy that they each passed on to him.