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URL:https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-the-last-letter-a-fat
 hers-struggle-a-daughters-quest-and-the-long-shadow-of-the-holocaust/
SUMMARY:KTA Book Talk: The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle\, a Daughter
 ’s Quest\, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Karen Baum Gordon joins us to discuss her book\, The Last Lette
 r: A Father’s Struggle\, a Daughter’s Quest\, and the Long Shadow of t
 he Holocaust\, a story that focuses on the life of her father\, Rudolf (Ru
 dy) Baum\, a Holocaust survivor whose thwarted efforts to save his parents
  had multigenerational effects. A crisis involving her father in 2002 prom
 pted Karen to research her family history. What she uncovered were hidden 
 scars of generational struggles reaching back to the camps and ghettos of 
 the Third Reich.\n\nAccessing archival documents\, photos\, and letters wr
 itten mostly by Julie Baum (Rudy’s mother &amp\; Karen’s grandmother) 
 between 1936 and 1941\, Karen's deeply personal and moving family memoir s
 pans events from the 1930s and Hitler’s rise to power\, through World Wa
 r II and the Holocaust\, to the present-day United States. In recreating t
 he fatal journeys of her grandparents and tracing her father’s efforts t
 o save them an ocean away in America\, Karen discovers the forgotten fragm
 ents of her family’s history and a vivid sense of her own Jewish identit
 y. She will share her story of family discovery and what led her to write 
 this book.\n\nThe Last Letter was nominated for the American Library Assoc
 iation’s Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding achievement in Jewish litera
 ture\, was an ABC Good Morning America Pick of the Week\, and went into se
 cond printing before its first anniversary.
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CATEGORIES:KTA Book Talks,KTA Membership event
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