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kspenmoll
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Pickpick

This book is part author‘s memoir,intermingled with discussions & interviews with her grandmother,Helga, archival material from Nazi &Jewish organizations,family mementos,letters,files,& journals her father kept.She writes,”For…Helga, remembering has become a sport– race against oblivion”(21).The author‘s great grandparents & one son perished in a concentration camp.The other son Hans,hides in plain site with his later adopted grandfather,Pepi.⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ in Vienna. After the war, Hans & his wife Helga become physicians & try life in the United States with his family, but after a year they return to their beloved Vienna, as they miss family,culture,the language & the city.The author experiences the same reaction after spending a year as a NYC reporter.She too misses the family closeness & weekly dinners,the city‘s culture & home to her family for generations.So she goes back to Vienna & her⬇️ (edited) 2w
kspenmoll ⬆️ Grandmother‘s home.With her grandmother she tours places of meaning to Helga:old homes sites,some since bombed out & rebuilt, Theresienstadt concentration camp,which her grandmother survived,Terezin,the small town where the camp was located & she saw its people watching them farm,the Aspang train station from which most Viennese were deported.Like many Jewish people, her family were not religious, but viewed themselves as Viennese Austrians. (edited) 2w
tpixie @kspenmoll this sounds very interesting. I have a historical fiction novel on my TBR about that camp 2w
kspenmoll @tpixie that book sounds fascinating! 2w
tpixie @kspenmoll I did enjoy it. More great research by this author. 1w
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kspenmoll
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Starting this before dinner. Have had this on my shelf several years. “
“Why would you return to a city that tried to murder you?” ( cover,Kirkus Review).Anna, the author of this book,is the granddaughter of two Jewish doctors who came to the U.S in the early 1950s. Her grandfather lost his entire family in a concentration camp,while her grandmother was a concentration camp survivor. #porchlife

AnnCrystal Grand porch view 💕🌸🌱💝. 2w
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shanaqui

I'm having to do a first post on some of the books I've started reading concurrently in order for them to show up properly as I can mark them as current reads! The list is just growing and growing and growing... I'm very whim-driven at the moment, just reading a little of multiple books at the same time, and that's fine.

I'm finding this one more interesting than I thought, even while it's still just describing how the census was set up!

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LibrarianRyan
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4⭐This book is all about what you would pack in your suitcase if you were an immigrant. It‘s about the things one leaves behind and what one brings to say hi New World this is me. This is lovingly done. It‘s not really about immigration; it‘s more about introducing yourself to a new people in new society and what does that well. And while this book is lovely, it rhymes, it has cadence, it does what it does well. I wish the author had gone further.

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Anna40
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Miranda‘s grandparents are survivors from France. Anna,a doctor, & Armand,an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials& later the UN,separate after the war, divorce & don‘t speak to &only with hate about one another for fifty years.Miranda goes on a journey to find out why/what happened to them. As much as I wanted to get to the end, this is another book I‘m bailing on. 😢

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staci.reads
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A charming little book intertwining stories about the author's family history of perseverance through challenging times, recipes from her mother and grandmother, and her reflections on her own challenges when she was laid off during an economic recession. I found it heartfelt and lovely. A cozy winter read. This was my January #Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

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TheBookgeekFrau
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Such a gorgeous Sunday! Hiked 2.7 miles this morning; of which the Grand did 2.2 before wanting her stroller--super impressed💞

And now I'm going to sit outside and start my #DoubleSpin before the fam comes for dinner.

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KCofKaysville
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Poignant graphic novel about author‘s digging up what happened with her uncle in Nazi Germany in the small town of Kuhlsheim and what Heimat means (sense of belonging.). Worthwhile if you are into Germany like me.

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KCofKaysville
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Started a graphic novel on reckoning with her German history.