A memoir of German Jews who escaped the Nazis to achieve international success
In this memoir you meet a famous cantor and composer, two on a kindertransport, a concentration camp survivor, a Hollywood movie star and Guinness world record holder, a disillusioned Zionist whose brother helped create Israel, a disarmament negotiator, hand surgeon, nightclub singer, state representative and judge, sociology professor and expert on terrorism, with family members in 17 countries.
The author was two years old when the Gestapo arrested both his parents. A military intelligence analyst, then a copywriter in the heyday of advertising agencies, he became an international creative director. He and his wife, scuba divers, lived on St. Barth's in the French West Indies.
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"My father never told me this. My mother did not tell me until he had passed away and I was 51 years old! Most of this accountI base on what I wrote down at the time I was told. But I did not find out the whole story until October 2004, when my son David and I, then age 70, went to Germany."
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri
A passionate and poignant memoir written by a woman whose life has been guided by the words: "I am here to learn how to love well." The book is a deep examination of relationships, family, motivation, and honoring of the Self.
