Jumping over shadows: Annette Gendler

Annette Gendler, the author of ‘Jumping over shadows’ is an interesting woman. She’s a German convert who met and married her Jewish husband, Harry, in Munich in the early 1990s.

Harry hailed from a family of holocaust survivors. His mother survived the war by hiding out in a French barn for four years, while his father survived by joining Stalin’s Red Army.

As the dust settled,  the two holocaust survivors somehow found themselves rebuilding their lives in Munich, of all places, and probabl...