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The Family Affair
It is some two years since Anna returned from the reunion of the survivors of the Hotel Polski in Warsaw. Although she was applauded for her courage in testufying against Col. Hauptmann at his war crimes trial, her obsession with what took place at the hotel during her period of imprisonment continue to haunt her.THE FAMILY AFFAIR, a sequel to THE POLSKI AFFAIR, introduces...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
August 26th 2011
by Diamond River Books
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I really wasn't sure what to expect from this book. The cover is simple and appealing, so I was initially intrigued. The story is captivating. It's about a fairly small Jewish family living in Israel. The story is told from Sholom's point of view for most of it, but Anna, Josef and Liese join in as well. (You'll have to read the book to find out who those people are.)
Anna and her husband are both survivors of the Holocaust in Poland. They were housed in the Hotel Polski...more
I really wasn't sure what to expect from this book. The cover is simple and appealing, so I was initially intrigued. The story is captivating. It's about a fairly small Jewish family living in Israel. The story is told from Sholom's point of view for most of it, but Anna, Josef and Liese join in as well. (You'll have to read the book to find out who those people are.)
Anna and her husband are both survivors of the Holocaust in Poland. They were housed in the Hotel Polski...more
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The Family Affair is the sequel to the intriguing book, The Polski Affair. This book takes place some two years after the first book.
Anna continues to try and move on with her life as a Holocaust survivor. It has been decades since she was living in the Warsaw ghetto and her family was murdered. Anna still deals with her feelings of survivors guilt. She has since remarried and her children are now adults with children of their own. As fate would have it, her son Sholom is doing his doctor...more
The Family Affair is the sequel to the intriguing book, The Polski Affair. This book takes place some two years after the first book.
Anna continues to try and move on with her life as a Holocaust survivor. It has been decades since she was living in the Warsaw ghetto and her family was murdered. Anna still deals with her feelings of survivors guilt. She has since remarried and her children are now adults with children of their own. As fate would have it, her son Sholom is doing his doctor...more
The Family Affair by Leon H. Gildin is the fictional continuation of his award The Polski Affair. Like its predecessor this is a short book, but one that packs in impact.
The book starts where The Polski Affair ended, Anna, the protagonist from the previous book, has learned to deal with her role as being an unwilling mistress to the hotel’s Nazi commander and lives her life peacefully. However, Anna’s son is doing his doctorate thesis on The Hotel Polski and learns abou...more
The book starts where The Polski Affair ended, Anna, the protagonist from the previous book, has learned to deal with her role as being an unwilling mistress to the hotel’s Nazi commander and lives her life peacefully. However, Anna’s son is doing his doctorate thesis on The Hotel Polski and learns abou...more
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The Family Affair, is not typically a book I would pick up and read. It is a conclusion to the 2010 Winner of the International Book Awards for Historic Fiction, The Polski Affair. You can read it without having read the first book. I haven't read The Polski Affair and I believe this story may have been more powerful to me because of it.
Anna is a Holocaust survivor living in Israel with her husband Chaim. Both Anna and Chaim had lost family during the Holo...more
The Family Affair, is not typically a book I would pick up and read. It is a conclusion to the 2010 Winner of the International Book Awards for Historic Fiction, The Polski Affair. You can read it without having read the first book. I haven't read The Polski Affair and I believe this story may have been more powerful to me because of it.
Anna is a Holocaust survivor living in Israel with her husband Chaim. Both Anna and Chaim had lost family during the Holo...more
I couldn't get into the story. It came across as a lot of telling and basic writing. It did not strike an emotional chord with me. While following a Jewish family 25 years after the destruction of the ghetto was interesting I was not engaged in the story. Perhaps I would have felt a stronger connection if I had read the first book in the series The Polski Affair which won the 2010 International Award for Historical Fiction.
I enjoyed The Polski Affair more so than The Family Affair.Both of the novels were quick and engaging!
Jan 28, 2012
Sara Kovach
marked it as to-read
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Jan 29, 2012
Laura
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Jan 27, 2012
Donna Rondo
marked it as to-read
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