Remember Who You Used to Be

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A woman's diaries</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 255 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>from age 16 before her last minute escape from Hitler's Germany until she died in Oxford England aged 50 - and the letters her big brother sent over those years from his refuge first in Ecuador then Pittsburgh USA. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Together they</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 255 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>build</span><span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>a vivid picture of two ordinary people touched by momentous events while agonising over boyfriends girlfriends the promiscuous habits of American girls music marriage </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and jumble sales.</span><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Gerda's diaries and Gunther's letters tell their story (the bits they want to tell each other the unconscious revelations) unaware of being one day read by strangers: a hard decision for the author (Gerda's son) but vindicated by this fascinating memoir through which the thread of diaspora and horror is a rarely spoken yet constant undertone in the rich emerging picture of the personalities quirks everyday concerns and poignant deaths of these forever separated siblings. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This unusual first-hand account that puts ordinary people into history in their own words is also the story of a woman whose hopes dreams and fears will touch your heart.</span></p>