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Das Haus: in East Berlin: Can two families -- one Jewish, one not -- find peace in a clash that started in Nazi Germany? (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Arthur Heise (Autore), Melanie Kuhr (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle

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Das Haus (The House) in East Berlin is the true story of two German families – one Jewish, the other not – whose paths first crossed in Nazi Germany and 70 years later again in the United States in the quest to have a house, which was located in the former East Germany, returned to its rightful owner. You will find out how the two heirs, who started out as antagonists in the 10-year struggle over the ownership of the house, ended up co-authors of this book – a small miracle in these often divisive times. In fact, the turbulent history of 20th century Germany, from World War I through the Nazi era, the Soviet occupation of East Germany, the rise and fall of East Germany, all the way to the post-Cold War struggles to determine the rightful heirs to a property sold by a Jewish family to a member of the Nazi Party a half-century earlier, are all part of the story of Das Haus.

What was like for a six-year old boy to live in the house through the battle for Berlin as the Third Reich collapsed under the murderous onslaught of the Soviet Army to end World War II in Europe?
How did the daughter of the Jewish owner of the house who had sold it to a German Nazi escape to England at the last minute and was also able to bring her young daughter to Britain?
What was it like as the two families struggled -- unbeknown to each other -- to make their way to America and the problems that greeted them there as they tried to rebuild their lives in the United States?
Once the Berlin Wall came down and German unification took place, what was the struggle like as the heirs of the two families separately tried to have Das Haus returned to them?
How the German heir's diligent search for the Jewish heiress fare as he tried to work out a common approach to getting the house back?
What came as the biggest shock of the odyssey to the German heir as he found out what happened within two years after his parents had purchased Das Haus?
Who is the “junkyard dog?" Another incompetent German lawyer or at last one without whose sage advice, knowledge of the law and ferocious determination the case would have dragged on until the house was a ruin?
• Was what the German Gentile heir saw as an interminable back-and–forth with the Jewish heiress actually her struggle with her Jewish culture? Did trying to get the the house back cause her to reexamine her Jewish heritage?
How did the German heir deal with the fact that his father had been a Nazi, albeit only a “nominal” Nazi party member according to his denazification proceedings? But was he the Nazi who kept threatening the Jewish owner of the house with burning it down unless he received monthly payoff?

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12 - 18 anni
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252 pagine
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Inglese
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6 - 12
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12 gennaio 2014
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Personal Note From the Authors: One of the authors, J. Arthur Heise, was the six-year old boy who witnessed the Battle for Berlin and went on to become a journalist, the retired founding dean emeritus of the nationally distinguished journalism school at Florida International University in Miami and the author of two non-fiction books. The other author, Melanie Kuhr, is the great granddaughter of the Jewish couple who sold the house to Heise’s father. After a successful big-business career, she is now the CEO and part owner of a company in Texas.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HNEF9GQ
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Eine Überraschung für meine Recherche

Recensito in Germania il 17 marzo 2016

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Wir (der Arbeitskreis Stolpersteine Karlshorst) haben zu der jüdischen Familie recherchiert und es wurden im Februar 2016 für Theodor und Helene Simonsohn Stolpersteine verlegt.
Kurz danach entdeckten wir im Internet dieses Buch. Wir waren mehr als überrascht. Dadurch konnten wir viele ungeklärte Fragen beantworten und zu den Simonsohns gab es jetzt Bildmaterial. So haben sie nicht nur wieder einen Namen, sondern es gibt auch zu ihnen ein Gesicht eine Gestalt.
Denn ein Mensch ist erst vergessen, wenn sein Name vergessen ist (aus dem Talmud)!

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Das Haus is a stirring, well-paced account of two unlikely characters' search for truth, clarity, and maybe redemption, over a Nazi-era real estate deal that has haunted each of them in very different ways for more than 50 years. At the centerpiece of this story is Das Haus, a modest two-family, six-room home located in a middle-class suburb of Berlin. The house was built, and originally owned, by a Jewish couple who were later killed in a concentration camp. Their great granddaughter is Melanie Kuhr, co-author of this book. In 1941, the house was sold to Arthur Heise, father of J. Arthur Heise, the other co-author of this book.

According to the recollections of Ms. Kuhr's heirs and prevailing government policies at that time, Ms. Kuhr's great grandparents were never paid for the sale because the buyer was a Nazi who forced the transaction "under duress."

While the endeavor to clarify sales terms are of mutual interest to the co-authors, Das Haus, behind its walls, harbors lots of secrets and surprises, and it is the unfurling of these mysteries throughtout the course of the quest that provides unique value to each co-author and profound insights to the reader.

In the eyes of Art Heise, Das Haus is the boyhood home where he would crawl into the coal cellar every night to safeguard against the thunder of shells, bombs and rockets that deafened his neighborhood during the Battle of Berlin. At age 6, Art and his family were given 24 hours to evacuate Das Haus, this order issued by a Russian soldier pointing a bayonet in his father's face.

In the eyes of Art Heise, Das Haus would also hold the keys to long-haunting mysteries of his father's past - his true role in the Nazi party - his good faith and honesty as the buyer of Das Haus.

In the eyes of Melanie Kuhr, Das Haus is also a home of bittersweet memories. While her grandmother spoke frequently about Das Haus with "pride and longing," it became ever-clouded by the spreading threat of Nazi terror. Melanie's great grandparents arranged escapes abroad for their daughter and granddaughter. But for reasons never clearly concluded, the great grandparents made the fateful decision to stay. To Melanie Kuhr, Das Haus thus becomes a centrifugal symbol to embrace Jewish and family legacy. The quest for Das Haus, she says, "was a personal journey. I needed to reconcile myself with my heritage."

The unlikey alliance of the co-authors is also a spine-tingling ingredient of this saga. Heise, a retired journalist and educator, approached Ms. Kuhr, virtually unannounced, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990. An extremely busy single mother and senior corporate executive living in Dallas, Ms. Kuhr greeted the overture with indifference and skepticism at best. But step-by-step they both managed to overcome their suspicions and doubts, heightening credibility and commitment, ultimately forging the collaborative effort of Das Haus.

Their mutual commitment to pursue Das Haus leads wherever it would take them, for better or worse, spawned no small amount of soul-searching along the way. But the result, Das Haus, is a compelling tribute to the co-authors, and a memorable gift to those who read it.

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Mister K

Algo aburrido y manoseado tema

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Inicialmente atractivo se queda corto y se hace monótono, repetitivo. Esperaba algo bastante más interesante. El tema no llega a su imaginado potencial.

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Colin

Fascinating.

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it was very thoughtful written and emotive. You could sympathize with both parties. I recommend this book to all people

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Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 19 ottobre 2013

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An excellent lesson on how the lives of millions of everyday citizens can be destroyed by the corrupt actions of a few in power, how innocence is betrayed by opportunism, and how the juggernaut of war impacts changes that last beyond a lifetime. The time is WWII. The setting is Germany. The story centers around two families, one Jewish and one Gentile, but both are swallowed up by the maw of deepest desperation.

As the war ruthlessly plows on, our story begins with a little Gentile boy and his family who must continuously dive for cover whenever their Berlin home was rocked by ceaseless bombings. One day amidst these terrifying barrages, the family was precipitously evicted from their home right into the pockmarked rubble of the Berlin streets by the invading Russians. Where were they to go? They, like so many hundreds of thousands of others, were abandoned to the ravages of war.

Prior to the home belonging to this German family, its first owners were an elderly Jewish couple, their daughter, and granddaughter. During the war, as increasing numbers of Jews were shipped off to and exterminated in concentration camps, the couple wisely determined that their daughter and her child should escape Nazi Germany, and fortunately, they were successful. But what was to become of this elderly couple? At first there were letters to their daughter who had fled to England, but then...nothing. Silence. They died a horrible death in a concentration camp.

Miraculously, the house that both families had called home withstood the bombing and the shelling of the war but was eventually taken over by the newly formed East German Government. After the fall of the Berlin Wall the opportunity arose for the rightful owners to reclaim the home. But who were they...the heirs of the Jews who died in the concentration camp, or the heir of the Germans who claimed to have legally bought the house from the Jewish family? Were they, in fact, Nazis who had stolen the house from the Jews? The answer, and the journey to uncover the elusive truth, may surprise and inspire you.

If you enjoyed "A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary," you will very likely enjoy this true story.

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