They Were Good Germans Once: A Memoir by Toynton, Evelyn
They Were Good Germans Once: A Memoir by Toynton, Evelyn

They Were Good Germans Once: A Memoir

While Evelyn Toynton's father became a hard-working, civic-minded American, with a great sense of obligation to his...
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Author: Evelyn Toynton
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They Were Good Germans Once: A Memoir by Toynton, Evelyn

They Were Good Germans Once: A Memoir

$54.37
They Were Good Germans Once: A Memoir by Toynton, Evelyn

They Were Good Germans Once: A Memoir

$54.37
Author: Evelyn Toynton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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While Evelyn Toynton's father became a hard-working, civic-minded American, with a great sense of obligation to his suburban community, her uncle never stopped feeling like an exile in the US; and as soon as he could after World War II, he started making trips back to Germany. The women in her family also had widely varying relationships to the societies in which they found refuge. One of them, after browbeating a Nazi police chief into arranging for her husband's release from Dachau, wound up in England and became a passionate Anglophile; another, a widow deprived of all material comfort and security, retreated into seclusion in her tiny New York apartment, distancing herself from American life and finding solace in her beloved German poets. A fierce Zionist who smuggled guns and money from Europe into Palestine under the noses of the British went on to found a kibbutz and fight for the rights of Arabs as well as Jews. Then there was the author's German-born mother, who emigrated to the U.S. only to be struck down by tragedy and forced to live separately from her children, but still found ways to nurture them and provide them with a haven from their own sorrows. Each of these remarkable people had lost not only their native homeland and their sense of identity but many of the people they loved. Yet almost all found ways to give meaning to their lives, whether in their own small circles or in the larger world.



Author: Evelyn Toynton
Publisher: Delphinium Books
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.42w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781953002389


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2024
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