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The Writing on the Wall: How One Boy, My Father, Survived the Holocaust - Couverture souple

Rieden, Juliet

 
9781760559489: The Writing on the Wall: How One Boy, My Father, Survived the Holocaust
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1760559482 ISBN 13 : 9781760559489
Editeur : Macmillan Australia, 2019

Synopsis

In 1939, as Hitler's troops march on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but change their family forever. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s always sensing that her family was different in some way. She longed to have relatives and knew precious little about her Czech father's childhood as a refugee. On the night before Juliet's father died, in 2006, Juliet's father suddenly looked up and said: "The plane is in the hangar." In the years after his death, Juliet comes to truly understand the significance of these words. On a trip to Prague she is shocked to see the Rieden name written many times over on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue memorial. These names become the catalyst for a life-changing journey that uncovers a personal Holocaust tragedy of epic proportions. Juliet traces the grim fate of her father's cousins, aunts and uncles on visits to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps and learns about the extremes of cruelty, courage and kindness. Then in a locked box in Britain's National Archives, she discovers a stash of documents including letters from her father that reveal intimate details of his struggle. Meticulously researched and beautifully told, this is the moving story of a woman's quest to piece together the hidden parts of her father's life and the unimaginable losses he was determined to protect his children from.

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À propos de l'auteur

Juliet Rieden has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working between the UK and Australia for magazines and newspapers as a writer and editor. She is currently Editor-At-Large at The Australian Women's Weekly, where she also works as the Royal Correspondent and the Books Editor. Her first book was The Royals in Australia. Magda Szubanski is an actress best known for Kath and Kim, and the author of Reckoning.

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Éditeur
Macmillan Australia
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1760559482
ISBN 13 
9781760559489
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Koch-Chemie GmbH
https://www.koch-chemie.com

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