Departure and Return: Trips to and Memories from Roth, Germany

ISBN-13: 9780615756240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 186 str.

Walter Roth

Opis

A family memorial as told through an aggregation of experiences, interviews and memories of Walter Roth, supplemented with letters from his family trapped in Germany during the Nazi era. Walter explores his family history in the village of Roth, Germany and the problems of Hesse. He looks at growing up in Chicago as a Jewish immigrant with relatives in Germany and the effect that had on his family living in Hyde Park, Chicago. He discusses his continued involvement with his village, Roth, and his trips to there with his wife, children and grandchildren through which he has come to terms with his family's tragic past.