On The Way to Feed the Swans - Softcover

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HANNELORE HAHN is the author of “On the Way to Feed the Swans,” an autobiography of a young Jewish girl growing up in an upper-class, German-Austrian family home in the Baroque city of Dresden during the rise of Nazism. It is a compellingly poignant memoir of a childhood buffeted by the ascendency of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of adapting to the strange new culture of the United States where her family resettled in 1938. First published in the U.S. in 1982 by Tenth House Enterprises, Inc., “On the Way to Feed the Swans” has been formally recognized by the Hannah Arendt Institute as an important contribution to the understanding of Nazi totalitarianism and the Hollocaust. A German language edition was published in 2008. Hannelore Hahn’s first published work was an illustrated children’s book entitled: “Take A Giant Step,” a whimsical homage to the history and adventure of walking on stilts published in 1960 by Little, Brown & Company with illustrations by the highly-regarded Margot Zemach. Later that year, she published a more serious essay on the history of stilts in the 20th anniversary edition of The Saturday Book, an immensely popular British holiday compendium of contemporary articles, essays and poetry published by Hutchinson of London and edited by John Hadfield. This essay also appeared in the action painter Alfred Leslie’s review, “The Hasty Papers,” and was subsequently republished by Host Publications, Inc. of Austin, Texas. Her extensive research on the history of stilts is on deposit in the archives of the Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Ms. Hahn served as a translator of “The Scientific Correspondence of Albert Einstein” before the original documents were transferred from the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton to Israel. In 1976, Hannelore Hahn foundered the International Women’s Writing Guild, a nonprofit organization which serves as a world-wide network for women who use writing as the means for life-long learning and both personal and professional growth. Unlike traditional literary organizations of that time, the Guild was open to any woman regardless of background, previous training or even writing experience. Over 4,000 books have been published by IWWG members during the organization’s 36-year-old history. “Remember the Magic,” a celebration of the IWWG’s first 25 years authored by Ms. Hahn, was published by Tenth House Enterprises, Inc. in 2001.