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A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
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Alexander Wolff
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Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the 20th century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America.
Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family whose ancestors included converts to Christianity. Always bookish, Kurt became a publisher at 23, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. Fleeing Germany in 1933, a day after the Reichstag fire, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, sought refuge in France, Italy, and ultimately New York, where in a small Greenwich Village apartment they founded Pantheon Books. But Kurt's taciturn son Niko, offspring of his first marriage to Elisabeth Merck, was left behind in Germany, where despite his Jewish heritage he served the Nazis on two fronts.
As author Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives, he discovers secrets that never made it to the land of fresh starts, including the connection between Hitler and the family pharmaceutical firm E. Merck, and the story of a half-brother Niko never knew.
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- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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One night at a dinner party in Florence, historian Daniel Lee was told about a remarkable discovery. An upholsterer in Amsterdam had found a bundle of swastika-covered documents inside the cushion of an armchair he was repairing. They belonged to Dr. Robert Griesinger, a lawyer from Stuttgart, who joined the S.S. and worked at the Reich's Ministry of Economics and Labor in Nazi-occupied Prague during the war.
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good book; strange voice...
- De S. Hall en 11-15-20
De: Daniel Lee
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When Time Stopped
- A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
- De: Ariana Neumann
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
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yesterday as fresh as today
- De reader mother en 02-17-20
De: Ariana Neumann
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The Nazi’s Granddaughter
- How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal
- De: Silvia Foti
- Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal.
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A Compelling Story Well Told
- De Catherine S. Read en 03-17-22
De: Silvia Foti
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Paper Love
- Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
- De: Sarah Wildman
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Years after her grandfather's death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled "Correspondence: Patients A-G". What she found inside weren't dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. One woman's letters stood out: those from Valy-Valerie Scheftel, her grandfather's lover who remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria.
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Compelling and Personal Exploration
- De Murphee en 08-09-23
De: Sarah Wildman
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Inge's War
- A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
- De: Svenja O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. In this transporting and illuminating audiobook, the award-winning journalist vividly reconstructs the story of her grandmother Inge's life from the rise of the Nazis through the brutal postwar years, from falling in love with a man who was sent to the Eastern Front just after she became pregnant with his child, to spearheading her family's flight as the Red Army closed in, her young daughter in tow.
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Ordinary German Citizens Caught Up
- De Hinterlander en 08-22-23
De: Svenja O'Donnell
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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The Boy Between Worlds
- A Biography
- De: Annejet van der Zijl, Kristen Gehrman - translator
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could have not been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life. What unfolds is more than the astonishing story of a love that prevailed over convention. It’s also the quest of a young boy.
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Should Be Required Reading
- De Pam Pearson en 08-20-19
De: Annejet van der Zijl, y otros
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. All three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant mortal danger. They showed great courage and experienced passionate love, as well as despair and heartbreak.
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Fascinating reading
- De David L. Jones en 03-26-20
De: Jung Chang
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I Want You to Know We're Still Here
- A Post-Holocaust Memoir
- De: Esther Safran Foer
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer, Esther Safran Foer
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching.
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Interesting but…
- De mk en 08-23-21
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When We Were Arabs
- A Jewish Family's Forgotten History
- De: Massoud Hayoun
- Narrado por: Massoud Hayoun
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism.
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Disturbing anti-Zionist propaganda
- De ilan sebag en 04-05-20
De: Massoud Hayoun
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Stalin's Daughter
- The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- De: Rosemary Sullivan
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators—her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.
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Insightful and thoroughly researched
- De Jean en 06-16-15
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"Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself"
- The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
- De: Florian Huber
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left but disgrace and despair. For tens of thousands of them, the only option was to choose death - for themselves and for their children.
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This book should be required reading for anyone that seeks to understand how ordinary people could be transformed into monsters.
- De Anonymous User en 05-08-20
De: Florian Huber
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The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- De: Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 45 h y 9 m
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.
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Inside saga of the leaders of Bolshevism & the USSR
- De Edward V. Blanchard en 11-05-17
De: Yuri Slezkine, y otros