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Publisher: Canongate
Author: Jackie Kohnstamm
ISBN: 9781838858018
Year: 2023
Format: Paperback
Non fiction, Memoir
The Memory Keeper
by
Jackie Kohnstamm
The Memory Keeper by
Jackie Kohnstamm
Reviews
"Memoirs about family experiences of the Holocaust continue to proliferate, but when they are as poignant as The Memory Keeper, they are a necessary reminder of an apparently unfathomable evil that happened not so long ago. Kohnstamm’s account is unashamedly personal … and she proves a warm and witty guide to what turns into an anguished journey into her past"
The Observer
Summary
Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt – where they will starve to death.
Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two commemorative stones recently placed outside their old home. The discovery compels her to open a long-closed cupboard of haunting family papers, piece together the story of the family she never knew and find her place in it.
With searing prose and meticulous detective work, Jackie Kohnstamm offers a gripping and poignant portrait of an ordinary family and reveals a remarkable story of loss, discovery and memory.
