Andrew a Dahl

Broschiertes Buch

Finding Rose

The Search for My Grandmother

Beschreibung

I never met my grandmother Rose Liepmann Oppenheim, but a telegram she sent from Nazi Germany confirms that she knew that I had just been born in Shanghai. "Finding Rose" chronicles the persistent efforts of my mother, then in China, and her two brothers, one in Palestine and the other in the United States, to save their mother Rose during the Holocaust. From Rose's origin as a descendant of long-standing German-Jewish families, I describe the inexorable deterioration of her personal condition under the Nazi regime including the forced bankruptcy of her family business, the seizure of her home, the confiscation of her possessions, and her deportation with her sister, a lifelong companion, to the Izbica transit camp in Poland. I recount my uncle's desperate search for his mother Rose. Sent to the United States as a teenager in 1937, he joined the U.S. Army as a "Ritchie Boy," becoming an interrogator of German prisoners and General George Patton's jeep driver. Immediately after the War ended, he drove through the Russian-occupied zone with the hope of finding his mother alive. My mother and her brothers never were able to "find" my grandmother. However, thanks to hundreds of letters from Rose to her children and other family documents carefully stored in old leather "suitcases of sadness" for 80 years, I have come to know her.

Autor

Andrew A. Dahl, M.D., was born in Shanghai, China, in 1941, the only child of German-Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. He attended the École Française prior to emigrating to the United States of America with his mother, Gerda Oppenheim Dahl, in 1949. His father, Max Dahl, M.D., was not able to join them until a year later, following the Communist takeover of China. Dr. Dahl graduated from Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in General Studies and with Distinction in his interdepartmental major, American Studies. He received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society. While in medical school, he did research at Guy's Hospital in London, England. Dr. Dahl had an internal medical internship at The New York Hospital, followed by a residency in ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of Harvard University. He is Board-Certified in Ophthalmology. He practiced medical and surgical ophthalmology and instructed medical students and residents for many years, specializing in "Ophthalmology for the non-Ophthalmologist." He has performed research in ophthalmology, done surgical mission work in remote Third World areas and currently is chief medical editor for ophthalmology for WebMD. He has authored and edited hundreds of internet-based scientific articles on eye disease. He has consulted with attorneys on medical negligence and product liability issues and with investment institutions on current and pipeline ophthalmic drugs and devices. He has been married to Ziva E. Dahl, a journalist, for more than fifty years and has two children and two grandchildren. Dr. Dahl has had a lifelong interest in history, including his family's history and genealogy and has written this book, "Finding Rose: The Search for My Grandmother" both to provide a personal account of his grandmother and as a tribute to her and the many other family members who did not survive the Holocaust to narrate their own stories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heritage Narrative Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 216mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 912g
• ISBN-13: 9798991756204
• Artikelnr.: 72792855