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In the Garden of Memory: A Memoir [Hardcover]

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (Author)

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'This book will delight anyone who likes to read of the past as seen through the eyes of the people living it...She tells her story with a tender matter-of-factness that makes it come alive, and displays a refreshing lack of hindsight: the narrative is not, as is so often the case, marked by the shadow of the impending Holocaust. Indeed, nothing in this wonderful tale is obvious, nothing is predictable.' (Adam Zamoyski THE SPECTATOR (8.1.04) )

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From the synagogues of nineteenth-century Vienna to Britain and the war years, the story of the Horowitz family reads like an epic novel. A wonderfully intimate family portrait, it follows the lives of four generations of Polish Jews who lived through - and mostly survived - the turbulent twentieth century. Full of tales of bravery as well as the comical anecdotes of everyday life, the book follows the family members as they are dispersed around the world - to European spas, tsarist prisons, Soviet war camps and the British RAF. One became an undercover agent, another a zoologist in France, another a leading Freudian psychiatrist. Amazingly only two members were victims of the Holocaust, though the Second World War left lasting psychological after-effects on all the survivors. However this is ultimately an uplifting story - of a family that never gave up hope and never gave in.
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On Tuesday, 28 October 1998, at the Jewish Cultural Centre in Krakow, I had a metaphysical experience, when my great-great-grandfather, or rather the shadow of his ghost, made a brief, unexpected appearance. Read the first page
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A fascinating history of the Hurwitz family of Austria/Poland 18 Jan 2010
By Evalyn F. Segal - Published on Amazon.com
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This book traces the origin of the Hurwitz/Horowitz/Hurvich family to a village in Moravia and then follows the branch that derived from the son of a Viennese rabbi Hurwitz who married a Polish Jewish woman of good family and settled in Warsaw. The couple founded a well-regarded bookstore and publishing house and prospered. The children were given excellent secular educations (the girls were educated at home with tutors). (I'm giving these details from memory. I read the book about a year ago.) We learn how the family coped under the Nazis, some surviving, some not; as well as under the Soviets (one ardent and loyal Communist Hurwitz was denounced as a traitor in the Soviet Union - a common occurrence; he died there). This book is a worthwhile contribution to the literature of Eastern European Jewry and the Jewish holocaust under the Nazis. It was written by a surviving member of the Warsaw Hurwitzes.
Outstanding Historical Memoir 7 Jan 2012
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This memoir is without question one of the best I have ever read and had a hard time putting it down. It is so well written and without reservation I highly recommend it. It is the epic story of one Jewish family in Poland from the 1800's to after WW11. Having just watched Nicholas and Alexandria and a mini-series on the royal families of Europe before and during WW1 this book was a great addition to what I watched. It dealt a great deal into the family's involvement in early communism in Poland and in Russia which was quite an eyeopener. From a historical standpoint the memoir was outstanding. It delves into the lives of a middle class Jewish family in Poland and then into the dreadful conditions members of this family lived in Russia. It followed the nine children, their children and grandchildren of a couple born in 1844, the author's great-grandparents. Fiction could not be more intense and fascinating.

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