Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

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Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

by Leslie Maitland (Goodreads Author)

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Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed its harbors. Then, barred from entering the United S...more

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Published April 17th 2012 by Other Press (first published January 1st 2011)

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Dec 05, 2012 Chrissie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio, bio, cuba, france, germany, usa, history, relationships

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I cannot say I liked the ending, but hey this is not fiction! I would recommend this book to those interested in WW2 memoirs and those who do not get upset when they read about infidelity! I would avoid the audiobook narrated by the author. The melodramatic tone piled on top of emotional, melodramatic lines is sometimes hard to swallow. If this sounds like I did not like this bo...more

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Aug 30, 2012 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Crossing the Borders of Time shares the life of a Jewish woman and her true love, lost during the war and then reconnected in her later life. Growing up in Nazi Germany, her family flees to Paris only to be chased from there as well. Never have I read such a detailed account of how France was taken into the war. While in Paris, she falls in love with a Catholic man and they begin their relationship- only to have it dashed when again the family is forced to flee. The story tells of friends and fa...more

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Aug 21, 2012 Catherine rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I bought into the selling point that this book told the Romeo and Juliet-esque love story of two young lovers separated over decades due to Maitland’s mother’s family escaping persecution during the Holocaust. Well, yes, that’s part of it, but a sizeable portion of the 500+ pages are devoted to dry historical information, taking away from the primary, more personal story. It’s important information, and I usually do enjoy history, but the author threw in every little tidbit from her research and...more

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Jul 24, 2012 Catherine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: memoirs, historical

The main focus of this story is the author’s mother, Janine, who was Jewish and was separated from her (non-Jewish) boyfriend, Roland, while fleeing France with her sister and parents during the Nazi occupation. The book covers many generations of family history, meaning that there are a lot of characters to keep track of. A family tree is included, but it’s in the back of the book and I didn’t find it until I had finished.

I vaguely knew about, but had not read any personal accounts of, Jews who...more

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Jun 16, 2012 Debbie Thomas rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book was brought to my attention by the NPR radio program where Diane Rehm interviewed the author, Leslie Maitland. After listening to her read an excerpt, I knew I had to read it. I am so glad that I did! This was a fantastic book!! While it is a true story, written by an investigative reporter for the NY Times, it reads like a well plotted novel. Janine, the main character is the author's mother. Her Jewish family left Germany for France in 1938 and subsequently escaped to the US via Cuba...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Elise Murdock rated it 5 of 5 stars

On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears the farewell letter that Roland had slipped in her pocket: “Whatever the length of...more

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In Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed, journalist Leslie Maitland tells the dramatic story of her mother's life, set against a deeply researched historical portrait of Jewish life in Germany, occupied France, a little-known Cuban detention camp, and within the refugee community of New York City's "Fourth Reich." The story starts in 1942, taking the reader from a pier in Marseille, France. There, an 18-year-old German Jewish gi...more

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Feb 06, 2013 thewanderingjew rated it 4 of 5 stars

My first thought about the book was that it was an incredible piece of research about a time I thought I knew everything about, and of which the author proved I had a lot left to learn.
I listened to an audio version of the book; I would not recommend it at all. It would be far better to read this book, to absorb the information and connect with the characters, without the over emotional presentation of the author, who was too close to the story to have hired herself as the reader. She should hav...more My first thought about the book was that it was an incredible piece of research about a time I thought I knew everything about, and of which the author proved I had a lot left to learn.
I listened to an audio version of the book; I would not recommend it at all. It would be far better to read this book, to absorb the information and connect with the characters, without the over emotional presentation of the author, who was too close to the story to have hired herself as the reader. She should have had an independent reader who knew how to give life to the words with the tone, expression and timbre of voice, necessary to give life to this important story. In addition, the author’s voice was a hypnotic, monotonous drone which tended to make me sleepy and lose interest in what was otherwise, an exceptionally moving story of suffering and courage, in the face of circumstances most people could not even imagine.
Because her voice was not sufficiently expressive, when new characters were introduced or reintroduced, they were often not quite as memorable as they could have been. The book is long and her reading of it made it tedious at times and difficult to hold the thread. However, her diction was perfect and her use of language and choice of vocabulary was superb, so that when fully engaged, the reader was thoroughly involved with the narrative.
Told from the vantage point of a family that was not interned in a camp, but suffered mightily simply trying to escape from the Nazis and the hardships inflicted upon them, in every country to which they fled, it opens another window on the atrocities committed by a nation and a citizenry, intent on the destruction of those they blamed for their own failures, those who were, essentially blameless. In this book, the focus is specifically on the Jews.
As well as a memoir about the author’s mother, it is also a love story about a young couple, still in their teens, who finding kismet, a magic feeling of love, were then robbed of it by a megalomaniac, who was followed blindly and loyally, by the masses. However, their love lived on, decade after decade, through their marriages and love affairs, which were largely unrequited and unfulfilled.
Tracing and following in the footsteps of her family, relatives and friends, through the travails they suffered, from Europe to Cuba, to the US and places in between, the author leads us on their arduous journey and fills in many details about their travels and encounters that were not expressed as well in other accounts that I have read. This is a thoroughly researched manuscript which traces their lives during this blighted period of history. Although at times they seemed to recover from their misfortunes rather well, and then proceed to live better than one would have expected, their main existence was that of hunted, stateless animals for which no amount of seeming normalcy could cover up.
Because the author makes excellent use of detail and descriptions of the times and the exigencies faced by the families, situation by situation, it is one of the most informative, provocative representations of the years preceding the war, in the early thirties, right up to and through it, until it ends and beyond. The author has captured the emotional temperature of the times including the individual instances and moments of terror and panic experienced by those being ostracized and abused by The Third Reich, those essentially trapped in a prison from which they could not escape and could find no succor from outside sources, those being sought like beasts simply because they were Jews, and this horror was witnessed by others, turning a blind eye, as their neighbors were led away. And, worst, for the most part, their plight was ignored by the world, even by a President, FDR, whom the Jews in America worshiped and respected, without realizing how he had betrayed their brethren.
What gifts did that evil incarnate Hitler, possess to impress so many with his demonic, malevolent designs and beliefs? Whatever it was, we should all pray that no one with that disturbed a vision, ever attains popularity again.
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May 01, 2012 Caitlin rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved every moment I spent reading this book (which I did in about 4 days). Maitland's writing style was unlike any other I have ever encountered; part memoir, part investigative reporter, part narrative, part history, and part novel. Clearly Maitland has done exhaustive research, painstakingly verifying sources, names, places, and events.

The best part about this story is that it's true! I fell in love with the characters and when I wasn't reading, I found my mind wandering to Sigmar and Alice...more I loved every moment I spent reading this book (which I did in about 4 days). Maitland's writing style was unlike any other I have ever encountered; part memoir, part investigative reporter, part narrative, part history, and part novel. Clearly Maitland has done exhaustive research, painstakingly verifying sources, names, places, and events.

The best part about this story is that it's true! I fell in love with the characters and when I wasn't reading, I found my mind wandering to Sigmar and Alice, Janine and Roland, cousin Mimi, and so many others. Now that I've finished the book, I still find myself thinking about the plight of this family. I probably learned more about WWII and the holocaust in "CrossingThe Borders of Time" than I have learned in school. I think this was due to the fact that I, the reader, experienced the events as they happened on a personal level in the lives of these characters. Starting with derogatory comments, to discriminating taxes, the illegal confiscation of businesses and assets, and of course the atrocities of deportations to concentration camps. It's one thing to read the phrase "they lost everything" and quite another to read pages of the calculating and systematic stripping away of everything from the Jews in occupied Europe. It's hard to find the humanity in so many leaders and countries who could have done so much but instead did very little to stop the atrocities being committed by the Nazis. How could so many desperate pleas go unnoticed? Of course I am thankful that the Allies banded together to fight and I am even more thankful that so many young men were willing to give up their lives. But for millions of men, women, and children who were Jewish or otherwise labeled as "undesirable", the intervention came far too late. So when I read about the plight of the Gunzberger family, I began to understand the desperate struggles of obtaining paperwork, and visas, and securing safe passage for their family. I can't help but feel that this family was more than lucky, it seemed as though Divine guidance was protecting them.

I won't even go into the incredibly beautiful love story of young Janine and Roland who were torn apart by war and who lost so much due to tragic circumstances much beyond their control. So much loss and sadness and years of heartache makes the consequences of war much more poignant and personal. But, the ending seems to make so much of that suffering melt away. I am inspired to believe that love can persevere through so much and I find my faith in my own marriage strengthened.
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May 13, 2013 Lauriann rated it 5 of 5 stars

The author, Leslie Maitland had me right from the start. She was in the verge of finding the love of her mother's life, a person her mother had been separated from fifty years ago when she fled Nazi Germany. The hook was in, and most of the remaining book was the background stories of her mother and grandparents' lives and I had to be patient to see if her attempts to reunite "Janine" and "Roland" were successful. I was in awe of the amount of research that went into the writing of this book. It...more

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Jun 20, 2012 K2 ----- rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was such an amazing book I didn't want it to end and delayed completing it I was so moved.

What is also amazing is how much source materials the author had access to and the in depth research she did into her mother's story.

The author, Leslie Maitland had been conceived but not born, when her mother was forced to choose between her baby's father and the love of her life. Leslie grew up knowing her mother's first love affair was interrupted by the ravages of World War II and her mother's fam...more

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Jun 16, 2012 Pamela rated it 5 of 5 stars

Excellent read! I highly recommend this book; it should be added to the legacy of books about the history and impact of WWII.

This is a Holocaust story, an immigrant story, and ultimately the story of star-crossed lovers torn apart by war. It is the true story of Leslie Maitland’s mother whose German name was Hannah, which she changed to Janine in France. The time frame covers her journey from a childhood in Germany and France just prior to WWII, to adulthood in America. The story is beautifully...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Ann rated it 5 of 5 stars

Reading through the reviews on Goodreads, I am amazed that people focused on the immorality of marriage infidelity and spoke little about the horrific historical events this family survived. It may seem hard to believe but the Gunzberger family was one of the lucky ones. They had money and connections that allowed them to escape Nazi Germany when a full 90% of the Jews in Germany were killed by the Nazis.

I love that the family was able to preserve so many artifacts. Most of the Jews who survive...more

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Nov 26, 2012 Linda Nichols added it

Meticulously researched, as befits a prize-winning journalist, this is the story of Leslie Maitland's mother and her family. Escaping Germany to France, and then escaping France, just one step ahead of and sometimes not even ahead of the Nazis, it also documents the love between Janine, the author's mother, and her French fiance. It is truly a sweeping story, beginning before WWII, and ending early in the 21st century. I learned that some Jewish emigrants from Europe ended up in refugee camps in...more

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Aug 28, 2012 Pauline rated it 5 of 5 stars

What a riveting account of Jennine's family's escape from Nazi Germany always one step ahead of being captured. Sometimes you feel like you can't read one more novel about this insane period of history and then a story like this comes along softened by the relationship of Roland and Jennine. Well researched and had to read it through the credits just to take in every last detail. The fact that this was a true story only made it the more bittersweet. Makes you realize, though, that if a family of...more

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Mar 06, 2013 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Maitland’s mother, Janine, was born in Germany but emigrated with her family to France in the late 1930s to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. While living in Alsace, she met and fell in love with a young Catholic man, Roland Arcieri. The two became separated due to the rising intensity of the Nazi occupation of France, but eventually reunited in Lyon and became engaged. Then, Janine (about 19 at the time) and her family emigrated to the US (by way of Cuba) on the last refugee ship leaving Fra...more

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Apr 17, 2013 Linda LaRoche rated it 5 of 5 stars

Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland is a superior book based on a true story. It is an intriguing quest in which the vividly harrowing descriptions of the Jewish plight during WWII overshadow a forbidden love between a Jewish girl and a French boy. Evocative with insight into refugee displacement and exile due to the war, it’s a testament to family survival and unity and the triumph of love.

Maitland's book covers many subjects. Her mother Johanna Gunzburger later called Janine was bo...more Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland is a superior book based on a true story. It is an intriguing quest in which the vividly harrowing descriptions of the Jewish plight during WWII overshadow a forbidden love between a Jewish girl and a French boy. Evocative with insight into refugee displacement and exile due to the war, it’s a testament to family survival and unity and the triumph of love.

Maitland's book covers many subjects. Her mother Johanna Gunzburger later called Janine was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1923. As a young woman her family fled to Mulhouse where she met Catholic law student Roland Arcieri. Her family fled again; this time to Gray and then Lyon as the Nazis annex Alsace Lorraine. In 1941 in Lyon she and Roland meet again and remain romantically linked to one another with the promise to marry. One year later, Janine and her family flee to Marseilles and then to Cuba and eventually to America. Unbeknownst to Janine, her father and brother insured she would not meet Roland again as they intercept his letters.

In America, Janine marries a Jewish man, a handsome and philandering Ayn Rand advocate. Maitland looks at her parents' difficult marriage but writes about the improbable love between the two. And, she writes about the love of her mother's young love —the Frenchman she left behind in Marseilles in 1942 but never forgot. This book also looks at the generations of Jews—and how families form and tear-apart through the years.

Fifty years after the Marseille events, Maitland who is a reporter, efforts reunite the widowed Janine and the married—for the second time — Roland, now living in Montreal, Canada. Maitland's investigative skills and her devotion to her mother lead her to successfully trace the lost but not forgotten Roland. Unlike so many stories of love during wartime, theirs has a happy ending.

Encapsulated in their story are many photographs, details, WWII history and facts and there is quite a bit to learn from this book—it is brilliant!
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Jul 01, 2012 Frances rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Frances by: Jane Landis

My mother bought this book for me on my kindle. It magically appeared in the device. That was just the first pleasant surprise that awaited me during the reading of this book. I loved every second of it! There were a few times where I had a hard time keeping track of the various family relations described in the book, but the family tree helped me sort out those questions. I could relate to these real people as if they were my real family. Having just read the book "Caring for Words in a Culture...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Melinda rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: e-book

I absolutely loved this book from beginning to end and was sorry to finish it. I am glad to have it on my Nook as it will be one to read again. The WWII genre is one of interest in both fiction and non-fiction. My father was in England when I was born and then in France for the rest of the war. This book is an amazing historical record of the journey of this family from Germany to France to Cuba and then to the United States. The author writes so beautifully that we are brought into a history of...more

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May 26, 2012 Christina Dudley rated it 3 of 5 stars

This memoir/family history/general WWII history began thrillingly, with a daughter trying to track down her mother's lost wartime love, and throughout the book, that was the story I was most interested in--not the grandparents, not the siblings, not the cousins, not the mayor, and so on. I also felt very sorry for mom's eventual husband, rather like whoever Kate Winslet's character ended up marrying in TITANIC--thanks for the lifetime, bub, but I'm still carrying a torch for this other fellow.

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Apr 01, 2013 Desiree rated it 4 of 5 stars

My husband found this book at the library and encouraged me to read it. It was a slow start to the book and then I was hooked. I literally spent the weekend with my nose in this book and could not put it down toward the end. The author was very detailed in her account of the story and you felt like you knew the people through the descriptions of their character and experiences.

The story was harrowing and it was sad to know that this was a historical account and not a work of fiction. It certainl...more

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Jan 26, 2013 Susan Weinberg rated it 5 of 5 stars

Quite an amazing story of a young Jewish woman separated from the man she loved by war and family obstructions. The story also traces her family's war-time journey from Germany to France, Cuba and ultimately the United States as they fled the Nazi regime. It is a very well written book by a New York Times reporter who has both the investigative and writing skills to create a gripping novel out of a story that was central to her family, the young woman is her mother. While the first part of the b...more

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Apr 04, 2013 Crystal added it

This is a great book to read if you like that feeling of having your heart ripped out of your chest and you love learning just how creative life can be in cruelly stealing potential happiness.

Instead of writing a review here are a few quotes from my highlights to give you a taste:

The dream of decades sat across the table, and once again she saw him as epitomizing everything she had always wanted in a man.

It’s the sad story of life—either one arrives too early or too late. Everything that happen...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Debbie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Wow—how to review this book? I’m torn because on one hand, it is a true story of war and I was drawn in from the first chapter. It is an incredibly well-researched and well-written biography/history of Janine, a German Jew, who escaped Germany and fled to France, Cuba, and ultimately the US during WWII. It is a story of Hitler, the Holocaust, wartime France, the plight of the Jews in Europe and Cuba, and Janine’s life. The history is what I will take away from it. *spoiler alert* On the other ha...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Deborah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, sb

FINALLY finished this one! Even though it's taken me months to get through, I enjoyed it. Maitland combines the personal story of her mother and family escaping Germany and France during WWII, her mother's great love (from whom she was torn when leaving France), and her parents' marriage and life in the U.S. with the larger narrative and history of the areas in Germany and France, Judaism in Europe, the Holocaust, and mid-century New York. It was a neat way to present some interesting history wi...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the story of a young girl who is separated from her true love during WWII. She escapes from france with her parents and brother via Marseilles, sails to North Africa then Cuba and later the family emigrates to New York CIty. She marries an American and has two children. This story is about her journey as a girl of 18 who leaves Europe and ends when she is in NYC and is in her 70's.

I'm not including any spoilers but this is not fiction. This book is fact. I receive this book free from go...more

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Aug 09, 2012 mim rated it 4 of 5 stars

As I've mentioned before, I like books written by reporters and this one didn't disappoint. I think the author did a good job of keeping us interested though she did cover a lot of history, locations, characters, and action. I learned things that I didn't know, about the Jews who did make it to Cuba, and more about U.S. politics and the reasoning behind the actions of not permitting refugees to come into the country in spite of knowing what was going on. It was an upsetting book and yet a real l...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Lori rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Those interested in WWII stories

Recommended to Lori by: Books on the Nightstand

Shelves: 2012, audio, booktopia-2012, non-fiction, all-time-favorites

I listened to the author, Leslie Maitland, do an amazing job of narrating this wonderful story of love and loss during World War II. She shares the fascinating story of her mother, a German Jew who, at the age of 16 was forced to leave her homeland with her family in order to flee Hitler. Moving to France where they were sure they would be safe, her mother met the "love of her life." As we all know, France did not escape the clutches of the Third Reich and Maitland's mother's harrowing story of...more

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Jun 03, 2012 Peggy Jeffcoat rated it 5 of 5 stars

This story is simply mesmerizing and beautifully told. It is not only a love story, but an account of Jewish history during World War II. The author grows up in America knowing that her mother left the man she loved when she escaped Hitler's reign of terror on the last boat out of Europe with other Jewish refugees. She traces her mother's flight to freedom and her ensuing life in America, along with the fate of numerous friends and relatives. Maitland eventually tries to find Roland, her mother'...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Ellie Schwartz rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Leslie Maitland recounts her mother's story. Born in 1923 in Freiburg, Germany, Hanna Gűnzburger lived a relatively carefree middle class life with her sister, parents, and extended family. At the age of fifteen she was forced with other German Jews to leave their homeland as the Nazis ascended to power. Moving to France, she changed her name to the French name Janine and assimilated into French society as well as any Jewish refugee from Germany could. It was in France where she met Roland (not...more Leslie Maitland recounts her mother's story. Born in 1923 in Freiburg, Germany, Hanna Gűnzburger lived a relatively carefree middle class life with her sister, parents, and extended family. At the age of fifteen she was forced with other German Jews to leave their homeland as the Nazis ascended to power. Moving to France, she changed her name to the French name Janine and assimilated into French society as well as any Jewish refugee from Germany could. It was in France where she met Roland (not his real name), a Catholic dreamboat who would become the love of her life.

When her family became among the privileged few to leave France for Cuba, she had to say goodbye to Roland. After a brief stay in Cuba, the family moved to New York,

Sabotaged by family, communications gone awry, and the ramifications of war, Janine and Roland lost touch with each other. They married and raised families of their own.

Leslie Maitland grew up hearing stories about her mother's romance as other kids grow up listening to fairy tales. As a reporter, Leslie tracked Roland down, and Janine and Roland's romance was rekindled forty years later.

Janine's family was lucky. They escaped Germany as an intact family unit, and were able to move to the United States. They may have lost their wealth and social standing, but lived decently and assimilated into American life. However, World War II and the persecution of Jews in places of Nazi occupation were always screaming in the background. The lives of Janine and Roland's generation, as well as of Leslie Maitland's generation were profoundly affected by the tentacles of war.

I appreciated the delicacy and respect with which the author discussed her father. He certainly had idiosyncrasies and indiscretions, but the author suggests that his wife's preoccupation with Roland may have caused him to look outside the family for happiness.

Another moral dilemma Ms. Maitland takes on is in the reborn romance of Janine and Roland. Janine's husband had died by this time, but Roland's wife of many years was still alive. Rather than break his wife's heart, Roland chose to keep his relationship with Janine from her. Roland and Janine were both uncomfortable with the adulterous aspect of their romance, but decided that it was the best course of action.

Crossing the Borders of Time: a True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed, is foremost a romance: two soulmates separated who find themselves reunited across oceans and after many years. The truly gratifying part of the memoir is that it's a true story.

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When it comes to discarding these things of the past, I can never think of an answer that pleases my ears -- the reason to get rid of them now instead of last week or eight months or twelve years ago which is probably why everybody gives them to me....I have become a trustee, a conduit, and to honor the past, I must pass them along....It is, I see clearly, much like the way I think of the Jewish tradition. In the face of the odds, the forces that time and again have sought to destroy it, the suffering of those who died to preserve it, who am I -- who am I in these easy times for us here -- to toss it aside, to abandon it now? From the beginning, the Jewish narrative has always been a story of journey, recalled and retold in each generation. Among those who have lived an exodus within their own times and have stubbornly carried their faith to new lands, it is left to their children to save and transmit it to those who come later, forging behind. (p. 55)(less)

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Leslie Maitland is a former reporter for the New York Times who specialized in legal affairs and investigative reporting. She joined the Times after graduating from the University of Chicago and the Harvard Divinity School. After breaking stories on the FBI’s undercover “Abscam” inquiry into corruption in Congress, she moved to the New York Times Washington Bureau to cover the Justice Department....more

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