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其他書名	A Jewish Family in the 20th Century
出版	Independently Published, 2021-04-16
主題	Fiction / Biographical
ISBN	9798738986772
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hvVozgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The book presents the history of Europe in the 20th century through the stories of my aunts and uncles, my father and my own memories. My paternal grandfather, born in Warsaw, had already devoted himself to Zionism in his youth. As early as 1908, he emigrated to Palestine with his large family. However, because he had no business success in Erez Israel, he returned to Europe. In Antwerp, he was successful as a diamond trader, which enabled him to secure a high standard of living for the family with nine children at that time. Unfortunately, the invasion of German troops in Belgium in 1914 forced the family to flee to Great Britain. In London and Oxford, the growing children experienced the most wonderful moments of their lives. However, despite his success as a diamond trader, my grandfather decided to move to Germany, a country whose culture and technical innovation he admired, as many Eastern Jews did at that time. In 1923, he moved to Berlin with his wife and eleven children. He was successful as a businessman in Berlin. However, he could not foresee the fate that awaited his family in Germany. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the family members gradually left Germany. They went to Belgium, but even from there, they had to flee from the Wehrmacht in 1940. Some of the numerous siblings were able to save themselves from the Nazi persecution by emigrating in time from Germany, Belgium or France to a safe country: Palestine, USA, Great Britain, Por-tugal, South Africa. Others experienced the Nazi period in France and Belgium as refugees hunted by the Nazis and their collaborators. As a strict Jewish believer, my grandfather Joseph had suffered greatly from his children's apostasy from the Jewish faith and their turn to the communist spirit. However, while three of his children, along with my grandfather, decided to live as Zionists in Israel and to participate in the building of a home for the Jews, my father went to Poland after the war and one of his sisters to Hungary to build up socialism there. Both left the communist states in 1957 and 1956 respectively. As a communist, my father refused to move from the anti-Semitic country Poland to Israel. Instead, he moved with his family to the communist East German country GDR, where I spent twenty years of my life. There I studied physics and worked in the field of nuclear energy. As a young adult, I rejected my father's communist faith. Only after one year in prison as an enemy of the communist state, I was able to leave the GDR in 1977 and move to the Federal Republic of Germany.The book is a story of a Jewish family with many children who managed to survive the Shoah without any victims. Most of the family's descendants now live in Israel. The book also describes my conflict with my communist-oriented father, who distanced himself from his Jewish roots.