Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938-1948 (shoah Studies)
by Gerd Korman /
2005 / English / PDF
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Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman
family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of
reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the
ill-fated
Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman
family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of
reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the
ill-fatedSt. Louis
St. Louis; the mother left for the United
States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport. One of
the sons was Gerd Korman, whose memoir follows his own
path—from the family’s deportation from Hamburg, through his
time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the
family’s reunited life in New York City. His memoir plumbs
the depths of twentieth-century history to rescue the
remarkable life story of one of its survivors.
; the mother left for the United
States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport. One of
the sons was Gerd Korman, whose memoir follows his own
path—from the family’s deportation from Hamburg, through his
time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the
family’s reunited life in New York City. His memoir plumbs
the depths of twentieth-century history to rescue the
remarkable life story of one of its survivors.