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Rating: Summary: GREAT BOOK Review: A moving and eloquently told tale that moves your soul and pierces your heart. It is a haunting reminder of the horrors of Nazism framed by flashbacks to the 1930s of Hitler's Germany and then forward to the present.This book puts you there, experiencing it all, the heartbreaking anguish, life, death, and always the love which surpasses all. A wonderfully amazing read.<...
Rating: Summary: A family from the Nazi era Review: The Last Cemetery in Berlin by Tania Wisbar and John Mahoney- Families ruined by the Holocaust are not new but family rediscovered by one woman's determination to fulfill her mother's dying wish is made novel in this intriguing historical fiction set in Berlin in the 1930's and early 1990's. For those of us too young or too oblivious to have experienced either, this is a must read about a wealthy Jewish family torn asunder by the war and the surviving heiress to a great fortune whose mixed heritage affords her a rare understanding of what it means to be German and Jewish.
Rating: Summary: You'll pray for rain, so you can curl up and read this book. Review: The Last Cemetery in Berlin by Tania Wisbar and John Mahoney- In the early 90's, when the Berlin wall was crumbling, I was shopping for wedding gowns. That's why I was so delighted to come across this novel. Knowing the importance of genealogy and family ties, I found the heroine's quest for knowledge about her family, in the context of a great fortune, very intriguing. Some important insights into the sociological difficulties of German reunification with additional fodder on German atrocities during World War II makes this a riveting historical read, giving just enough information to make you sound intelligent about German history. I'll have to conjure up my new found repertoire at the next soiree.
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