A review of A GIFT FROM THE ENEMY The author of this endearing memoir is an 82-year-old retiree living in Florida. How he got there is an amazing tale. Born in Vienna as Erich Lifschutz, an upper middle class Jew with Polish roots, he left Austria with his parents in 1938, at the age of 8. As Jews, they were not permitted to take much money out of the country as they shuffled across France and came to settle in Italy, as the Nazis marched across borders. You would expect such an account to be filled with the horrors of war. But it is not. Lamet is a natural storyteller. When he identifies...
A review of A GIFT FROM THE ENEMY The author of this endearing memoir is an 82-year-old retiree living in Florida. How he got there is an amazing tale...