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Nancy Kohner spent two decades piecing together her familys history from the suitcase of diaries, letters and photographs that her father brought out of Prague before she died in 2006. The result is the extraordinary and touching record of a Jewish family caught up in the tumult of two world wars. Nancys grandparents and their three children find their sanctuary in the garden of the small town where they live between Prague and the German border called Podersam. There they have their happiest times at the reunion when the eldest son returns from the trenches of World War 1, when their youngest son joins them in the family linen business, and when their daughter gives birth to their first grandchild. But instability and danger are the permanent backdrop. When the Nazi Storm Troopers march into Podersam their lives will never be the same again. The daughter commits suicide while the two sons escape to England and Ireland. The last batch of letters from the grandmother make it poignantly clear that her fate is destined for the death camp of Treblinka.
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Nancy Kohner was a respected health writer on bereavement. She was born in Bradford in 1950. Her father, Rudolph, was a Jewish refugee from prewar Czechoslovakia who married a local girl, Olive. The Podersam Garden is the result of decades of work by Nancy reasearching family diaries and letters and piecing together her family history. Nancy died of cancer in 2006, aged 55. Her daughter Bridget, a historian and archivist for the Horniman museum, completed the manuscript after her mothers death and now provides the link between the past and the present. Bridget lives in London.
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My Father's Roses
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Hodder & Stoughton, 2008
ISBN 10: 0340960256
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Librería: Bookbot, Prague, Republica Checa
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Softcover. Condición: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke. "Nancy's father was not like other fathers in their northern English town. Elegantly dressed after the Eastern European fashion, an impeccable violin player, and never without a rose in his lapel, her father's entire essence alluded to a hidden and haunting past. Upon his death, Nancy, on a quest to rediscover her family's past, delves into the endless boxes of letters and diaries her father carried when he fled Czechoslovakia in 1939." There were times of joy: a son's return from the trenches of Verdune; the birth of grandchildren; a growing family business. But there was also fear. As the first Storm Troopers march into Podersam, Nancy witnesses the disintegration of the family through their increasingly desperate letters. My Father's Roses is a compelling and intimate testament to the persistence of family, memory, and the bonds of kinship in the face of humanity's darkest hour. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9be2e6c2-5c84-4cda-9519-9744566cd824
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Paperback. 82008. Nancy Kohner spent two decades piecing together her family's history from the suitcase of diaries, letters and photographs that her father brought out of Prague before she died in 2006. The result is the extraordinary and touching record of a Jewish family caught up in the tumult of two world wars. Nancys grandparents and their three children find their sanctuary in the garden of the small town where they live between Prague and the German border called Podersam. There they have their happiest times at the reunion when the eldest son returns from the trenches of World War I, when their youngest son joins them in the family linen business, and when their daughter gives birth to their first grandchild. But instability and danger are the permanent backdrop. When the Nazi Storm Troopers march into Podersam their lives will never be the same again. The daughter commits suicide while the two sons escape to England and Ireland. The last batch of letters from the grandmother make it poignantly clear that her fate is destined for the death camp of Treblinka. Good condition. Light tanning. Nº de ref. del artículo: 23572075
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