
The Pendulum
A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
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Julie Lindahl
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This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' role in the Third Reich, as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations - emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
In a remarkable six-year journey through Germany, Poland, Paraguay, and Brazil, Julie uncovers, among many other discoveries, that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since 1934. During World War II, he was responsible for enslavement and torture and complicit in murder of the local population on the large estates that he oversaw in occupied Poland, before fleeing to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials.
The pendulum used by Julie's grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the elusiveness of truth and morality, but also for the false securities we cling to when we become unmoored from them. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family's secret, discovering history anew, one precarious step at a time, the compassion of strangers is a growing force that transforms her world and the way that she sees her family - and herself.
©2018 Julie Lindahl (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power.
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- De sam en 06-05-15
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A Chance in the World
- An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
- De: Steve Pemberton
- Narrado por: Steve Pemberton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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A Chance in the World is the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience, determination, and vision. Through it all, Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.
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Good Book
- De Amazon Customer en 08-19-20
De: Steve Pemberton
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The Island
- De: Victoria Hislop
- Narrado por: Emma Powell
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding plans a trip to her mother's childhood home in Plaka, Greece hoping to unravel Sofia's hidden past. Given a letter to take to Sofia's old friend, Fotini, Alexis is promised that through Fotini, she will learn more. Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the deserted island of Spinalonga—Greece's former leper colony. Fotini reveals the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war, and passion.
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Excellent story!
- De Wendy en 06-28-23
De: Victoria Hislop
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Survivor Cafe
- The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
- De: Elizabeth Rosner
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Rosner
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor Café offers a clear-eyed sense of the enormity of our 21st-century human inheritance - not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust, but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy.
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A book every generation should read
- De J. Faught en 09-29-17
De: Elizabeth Rosner
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Mosaic
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 19 h y 56 m
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>i>Mosaic is compelling storytelling at its best - from the fascinating details of Polish-Jewish culture and the rivalries and dramas of family life, to its moving account of lives torn apart by war and persecution, this an extraordinary true story of a family, and of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage.
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Absolutely excellent!
- De Roberta en 09-22-11
De: Diane Armstrong
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
- De: Bart van Es
- Narrado por: Bart van Es
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents. The girl had been raised by her foster family as one of their own, but then, well after the war, they were no longer in touch. What was the girl's side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war and after? So began an investigation that would consume Bart van Es's life and change it.
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a powerful & unique work on the Holocaust
- De D. Littman en 03-06-19
De: Bart van Es
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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The Red-Haired Woman
- A Novel
- De: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrado por: John Lee, Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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On the outskirts of a town 30 miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before - not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other and exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world.
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Drags On
- De T. Conrad en 10-25-17
De: Orhan Pamuk
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The Lost Carousel of Provence
- De: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Château Clement, nestled well beyond the rolling lavender fields and popular tourist attractions of Provence. Once a bustling and dignified ancestral estate, now all that remains is the château's gruff, elderly owner and the softly whispered secrets of generations buried and forgotten. But time has a way of exposing history's dark stains, and when American photographer Cady Drake finds herself drawn to the château and its antique carousel, she longs to explore the relic's shadowy origins.
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Loved It!
- De T Heskett en 09-23-18
De: Juliet Blackwell
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Wicked Autumn
- Booktrack Edition
- De: G. M. Malliet
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max's training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play.
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Just OK
- De Jeanne en 08-05-21
De: G. M. Malliet
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Winter Journey
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Halina Shore is a Polish born forensic dentist living in Australia. When she travels to Poland to take part in the investigation of a war crime, she finds herself at the center of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. As the investigation proceeds, her professional assignment becomes a confronting personal odyssey as the truth about her own past begins to emerge.
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Historical Story Marred by Unnecessary Fluff
- De Debbie en 11-30-15
De: Diane Armstrong
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Outline
- The Outline Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking - about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.
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Difficult and Better in Print
- De Nick O. en 07-18-23
De: Rachel Cusk
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The Lake House
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 21 h y 24 m
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Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure ...One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.
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Enjoyed the writing, but oy vey, this book
- De Jennifer S en 12-28-18
De: Kate Morton
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Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
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Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
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- zaneleh
- 06-25-22
Well Told and Interesting Theme
Wasn't sure what to expect when I got this audio boo k but found myself immersed in the story. Well written and well told. Kept my interest.
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- Andrea Nielsen
- 06-20-19
5 stars all around.
Narrator was perfect! Easily could've been Julie herself in my opinion. Excellent writing and fascinating story.
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- Richard W.
- 11-26-22
truth, perspective, forgiveness
Incredible story of facing a past no one would talk about, pursuing truth, understanding context and perspectives, and ultimately finding peace and purpose. Very well written and narrated.
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- Jean
- 01-14-19
Exceptional
This is a fascinating story about a historian’s search for the truth about her family history. I highly recommend this book. If you have ever done any genealogy research on your family, you will be enthralled with this book. Lindahl was born in Brazil where her grandparents had emigrated after World War II. She discovered her grandfather was not only a Nazi but SS. This book will make you stop and think about the rise of fascism and what is happening today in the world. Can history repeat itself?
The book is well written and researched. She tells of her grandparents’ lives but also about her own emotions about her discoveries. Lindahl uses her skills as an academic to research and report on this difficult subject. I found her search techniques to be interesting. Lindahl earned her B.S. from Wellesley and was a Fulbright Scholar to Germany majoring in the German language. She earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University. She was a Steven Traveling Fellow 2015-16 at Wellesley College and University College of London. She lives in Sweden.
The book is nine hours. Gabra Zackman does a great job narrating the book. Zackman is an actress and audiobook narrator.
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- 02-08-22
Granddaughter of a Natzi
The story is very enlightening about how the atrocities of a grandfather transfers through the generations.
SS Natzi continues to leave it’s marks. I learned a lot about how the Natzis immigrated to South America.
One of the things that stuck out in the folks that knew the author’s was that they were forgiving toward the granddaughter and said the grandfather was an unhappy man.
Interesting read.
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- Charlotte Taylor
- 05-25-21
Thought provoking
Interesting story with no big reveal but it generates a thought process that has really stuck with me. Well done and the narrator was wonderful.
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- Debbie Mathisen
- 02-10-22
Very Thoughtt Provoking
I found this book Very Thoughtt Provoking. The book tells the story of a woman's journey into her family's history, and how she comes to terms with the fact that her grandparents were Nazis. The narrator did a great job. 👍 Highly recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-28-24
fantastic research
I loved it. the prose, the research, the history and the generational inheritance of past generations. fantastic read.
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- P. K.
- 05-25-19
Brings the past to life
Researching your Nazi grandfather's past seems oddly specific. But, it touches on Universal themes of guilt, shame and family secrets.
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- 10-11-20
Insightful
Kept wondering who her grandfather was. The author only referred to him as opa. It didn't matter in the story but wondered. I had known about the Nazi's fleeing Germany post WW2 to South America and it explained in a way of how the South American governments still struggle with corruption.
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