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Bronsteins Kinder

by Jurek Becker

German language materialsFiction, generalNew York Times reviewedEx-NazisFictionHolocaust survivorsChildren of Holocaust survivorsJews

"East Berlin, 1973: an 18-year-old Jew discovers that his father’s friends are holding prisoner a former Nazi concentration camp guard in the family cottage. The three older men have handcuffed the ex-Nazi to the bed and are interrogating and torturing him in an attempt to get him to admit to his war crimes. . . . Becker keenly shows the tension between members of the Holocaust generation and their children, who are unable to understand the complexity of that nightmarish era of human history."—Booklist

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Book data: Open Library