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The last letter : a father's struggle, a daughter's quest, and the long shadow of the Holocaust

Title: The last letter : a father's struggle, a daughter's quest, and the long shadow of the Holocaust / Karen Baum Gordon.
Author: Gordon, Karen Baum, 1956-
Publication: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021]

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Description

xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 23 cm.

Summary

"Part of the Legacies of War series, The Last Letter is a family memoir that spans events from the 1930s and Hitler's rise to power, through World War II and the Holocaust, to the present-day United States. Karen Baum Gordon's gripping narrative opens on her father Rudy Baum's attempted suicide in 2002 at the age of eight-six and unfolds in an investigation of generational trauma within her extensive German Jewish family. Gordon grounds her research in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum, Rudy's mother and Gordon's grandmother, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. Gordon examines pieces of these worn, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to recreate the fatal journeys of her grandparents in the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich and trace her father's efforts to save them an ocean away in America. Doing so, Gordon discovers the forgotten fragments of her family's history and a vivid sense of her own Jewish identity"--

Series Statement

Legacies of war

Uniform Title

Legacies of war.

Alternative Title

Father's struggle, a daughter's quest, and the long shadow of the Holocaust

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Dallas, 2002 -- Frankfurt before 1933 -- Germany and America, 1933-1936 -- Frankfurt and New York, Late 1936 -- Frankfurt and New York, Early 1937 -- Frankfurt and New York, Late Spring and Summer 1937 -- Germany, 1937 -- Zurich and Frankfurt, August-September 1937 -- Frankfurt, October-December 1937 -- Frankfurt, January-March 1938 -- Germany, Early 1938 -- Frankfurt and Dresden, April-June 1938 -- Germany, Summer and Late 1938 -- Birmingham, 193 -- Germany, 1939 -- Texas, 1939-1941 -- Germany and America, 1940 and 1941 -- Frankfurt, October 1941 -- Fort Sill, Fort Logan, St. Louis, Camp Lee, Camp Ritchie, and Camp Sharpe, 1941-1944 -- London, Normandy, Paris, and Trier, 1944-1945 -- Frankfurt, 1945 -- Buchenwald, 1945 -- Marburg and Palestine, 1945 -- Dallas, 1959 -- Dallas, 1961-1963 -- Frankfurt, 1972, and Dallas, 1990 -- Dallas, 1991 -- Frankfurt, 1991 -- Berlin, 2000, and Dallas, 2002 and 2005 -- Dallas and Houston, 2008 and 2009 -- My Search Begins, 2009 -- A Trip to Frankfurt, 2010 -- A Trip to Poland, 2010 -- The Stolpersteine at Reuterweg 73, 2011 -- The End of One Journey and the Beginning of the Next, 2013.

Call Number

JFE 22-2202

ISBN

9781621907039
1621907031

LCCN

2021033644

OCLC

1255216068

Author

Gordon, Karen Baum, 1956- author.

Title

The last letter : a father's struggle, a daughter's quest, and the long shadow of the Holocaust / Karen Baum Gordon.

Publisher

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Legacies of war

Legacies of war.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Form:

Online version: Gordon, Karen Baum. Last letter Knoxville : The University of Tennessee, 2021 9781621907046 (DLC) 2021033645

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2202

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