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Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival - Softcover

Kirsten, Karen

 
9781837700448: Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1837700443 ISBN 13: 9781837700448
Verlag: Mardle Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth?

In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger.

After Karen eventually discovered the grandparents she loved dearly were in fact not her biological grandparents, she travelled the globe to uncover her family's past and to find the answers to baffling questions: why did her adoptive grandmother treat Karen's mother so unkindly? Why did she hide the truth that she was her mother's aunt? And why, if she appeared to dislike Karen's mother, did she risk her life to save her and bring her to Australia?

Irena's Gift weaves together a mystery, history and memoir to tell the story of a family torn apart by war. From the glittering concert halls of interbellum Warsaw to the vermin-infested prison where a Jewish woman negotiates with an SS officer to save her sister's child, Irena's Gift is about the lies we tell to survive and what happens when those lies unravel. It is about the extraordinary resilience of three generations of women, and the sacrifices made for love.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A former marketing executive, Karen is an Australian-American writer and genocide educator who lectures on the topics of hatred and reconciliation around the world. Her work has been published by Narratively and nominated for Best American Essays, Salon.com, The Week, The Jerusalem Post, WIĘŹ in Poland and Boston's National Public Radio station.

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Verlag
Mardle Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1837700443
ISBN 13 
9781837700448
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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