My Father's Roses: One family, two wars, three generations divided by fate and bound through love - Couverture rigide

Kohner, Nancy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340960248 ISBN 13 : 9780340960240

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. Nancy s 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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. My Father's Roses 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 mother s death and now provides the link between the past and the present. Bridget lives in London.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0340960248
• ISBN 13: 9780340960240
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304