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This book was so much more in depth than I expected. In an effort to understand his father‘s suicide (his father was sent through an ad to a family in England at age of 11) the author dug deep & retraced the fates of both the children in the adverts & their families. For me his journey elicited contradictory responses in that it was both fascinating & heartbreaking. #NF Highly recommend.

Before dinner book & libation. #porchlife

In Mark Twain‘s biography by Ron Chernov, the author gives extensive attention & coverage to Twain‘s eight months in Vienna.

I had no idea that 20,000 Jewish refugees from Vienna traveled to Shanghai to escape the Nazis.But in 1941 the Nazi‘s arrived in the face of the notorious Colonial Josef Meisinger, the “Butcher of Warsaw.”His ideas for the solution of the “Jewish problem” scandalized the Japanese, despite the fact that they committed atrocities themselves. Instead they created a 3/4 square mile ghetto fie the Jews,where they were starved & exposed to typhoid.

Beautiful tribute to these children, their parents who sent them to safety, & those in Britain who took them into their homes.

Sunday afternoon porch reading & a coffee. #porchlife #coffeeandbooks

My library hold came in today. Sadly enough Ruth Hargrove wrote this in 2020 during the first Trump administration. She was trying to stop deportations of some Cameroonians because they would probably be killed” if returned to their country in the midst of a brutal evil conflict”(8). #ranttime

The book is based on a photograph brought to the Holocaust Museum in DC. There were so many important & sad points made throughout the book. There are so many people & families that were murdered that historians feel that they still don‘t have the full story. That there has been so much whitewashing & pushback on researchers. Making it difficult to access archives or digger further into the past. My grandmothers family left Poland in the early

I can‘t say I wasn‘t warned. The above sentence appears in the introduction. While the methodology of the surveys is important for academics and the differences in interpretation of the data by the 2 authors points to some issues, this book is not readable. And it doesn‘t offer me any ideas on how to safely resist. How anyone can make such horror so dry is beyond me. The information is good, but if you put people to sleep they won‘t absorb it.