ISBN:
9781105871535
Language:
English
Pages:
192 Seiten
Year of publication:
2012
Keywords:
Überlebender
;
Autobiografie
;
Schoa
Abstract:
In July 1941, Bernard Burton and his parents escaped Nazi Berlin on one of the last "Jewish wagons going west. The family traveled to Spain and then to Cuba, using visas that no official noticed had expired months before, and remained in Cuba for three years before joining relatives in the United States. There, young Bernard would go on to serve in the U.S. Army, attend college, marry, have a successful career and raise a family. Through the years, Bernard corresponded with journalists, academics and others about topics relating to the Holocaust and to his life as a Jewish child and teen in Nazi Berlin. With an adult's hindsight formed by decades of reflection, he has assembled these letters and crafted narrative around them, and has shared descriptions of related events from later in life. The result is a vivid look at a world witnessed by a Jewish child under Hitler, a European refugee in Cuba, an American soldier occupying his native German soil, and ultimately an adult, a grandfather and a survivor.
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