The Glassmaker's Son: Looking for the World my Father left behind in Nazi Germany
The Glassmaker's Son: Looking for the World my Father left behind in Nazi Germany
Peter Kupfer
The Glassmaker's Son: Looking for the World my Father left behind in Nazi Germany
Peter Kupfer
Descripción
A blend of lyrical memoir and sober history, The Glassmaker's Son recounts a son's decades-long quest to uncover the world his father left behind in Nazi Germany. Along the way, he makes a series of surprising discoveries about his family, who were important players in the Bavarian glassmaking industry. After his grandfather was forced to sell the family villa, for instance, the Nazis turned it into their regional headquarters before it was destroyed by American artillery in the closing days of the war. In another twist, the author recovers a pair of lost portraits of his great-grandparents that an elderly housekeeper had been "guarding" for more than 40 years.
Using a cache of old letters found in his parents' attic and other documents, Kupfer painstakingly pieces together the details of his grandfather's deportation and murder at Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in western Czechoslavakia touted by the Gestapo as a "spa town" for distinguished Jews. At its core, this book is about a search for identity - the identity of the author's soft-spoken, inscrutable father and of the author himself.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 258 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Amsterdam Publishers |
Fecha de Publicación | 2022-11-22 |
Dimensiones | 9.0" x 6.0" x 0.58" pulgadas |
Serie | Holocaust Survivor True Stories |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Temas | Holocausto, Judío |
Acerca del Autor
Kupfer, Peter
Peter Kupfer is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. His stories about business and technology, art and culture, travel, and other subjects have appeared in major newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Observer, and Metropolis magazine. He was a copyeditor at the San Francisco Chronicle for many years.Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.381 kg |
SKU: | 9789493276468 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 06/11/23 |
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