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En la primavera de 1939, ante la inminencia de la guerra, una niña de ascendencia judía de seis años, Eva Unger, abandona Alemania con su familia para instalarse en Londres. Pero, pese a las relativas comodidades materiales, no es fácil encajar en una nueva sociedad ni forjarse una identidad en un país ajeno, e inevitablemente las relaciones familiares sufrirán las consecuencias de ello.
La llegada desde Palestina de una carta de quien fuera su criada, Edith, solicitando reincorporarse al servicio de los Unger lo cambiará todo. Eva irá descubriendo la vida de Edith a través de sus conversaciones en la cocina, como vivió el nazismo y su posterior viaje a Israel.
Sorprendentemente la historia de Edith desmiente muchas de las ideas preconcebidas y los prejuicios sobre los alemanes, al tiempo que desvela algunas incómodas verdades acerca de la intervención de EEUU en Oriente Medio.
A medio camino entre las memorias y el ensayo político, Eva Figes ha escrito un relato tan emotivo como polémico.
La llegada desde Palestina de una carta de quien fuera su criada, Edith, solicitando reincorporarse al servicio de los Unger lo cambiará todo. Eva irá descubriendo la vida de Edith a través de sus conversaciones en la cocina, como vivió el nazismo y su posterior viaje a Israel.
Sorprendentemente la historia de Edith desmiente muchas de las ideas preconcebidas y los prejuicios sobre los alemanes, al tiempo que desvela algunas incómodas verdades acerca de la intervención de EEUU en Oriente Medio.
A medio camino entre las memorias y el ensayo político, Eva Figes ha escrito un relato tan emotivo como polémico.
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First published June 1, 2008
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Eva Figes
40 books33 followersEva Figes (born Eva Unger) is a German-born English author.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
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June 7, 2020Wow. This is a slightly odd, or possibly actually a very emotionally honest mix of memoir and opinion piece.
Eva Figes is the mother of my bete noire - Orlando Figes - and I read this book with no great expectations, but simply on account of my own craziness; I have been trying to increase the amount of books written by women that I read, and this was simply available.
Anyway the memoir is about her and her nuclear family - secular Jews living in Berlin in the 1930s, how they left Germany and settled in London, one day after the war they get a letter from Israel - from their former housemaid Edith - asking if she could have her old job back. In London, Eva talks to Edith who tells her how she survived in Berlin until the end of the war, how she went to Israel and her experiences there.
During that part of the narrative Figes increasingly moves into the opinion part of the work, which is that she does not think that Israel is a good idea, or as she puts it; that it has no right to exist. A way of thinking I have always found odd, probably because I am a blockhead.
There is then a mixture of personal recollections that make up a holocaust survival memoir, and this is particularly interesting because there is an absolute contrast, Figes' family were middle class and were able to buy their way out of Nazi Germany and to buy their way into Britain (though they were also sponsored as part of a job lot by a Rothschild) with their furniture and most of their possessions, the house maid Edith was an orphan who went from the orphanage into service and was abandoned in Berlin and she survived though the kindness of her fellow Berliners (mingled with the help of people who had become anti-Nazi, and in the closing period of the war those who could see which way the wind was blowing and saw in helping Edith a chance to get their Persilschein . In addition one of Figes' grandmothers, an elderly diabetic, stayed in Berlin, leaving for Sweden late in the war without great problems. .
The tendentious part, her hostility to Israel and to much of the foreign policy of the USA is trickier for me to discuss, for one thing she refers to having read and done research, but this book has no footnotes or bibliography, four or five works that she quotes at length are credited, not that I disagree with any of the facts that she mentions but some of what she discusses shades from fact into interpretation and opinion.
I feel after some brief refection that she is hostile ( and there is a lot of anger in the book that I could feel between the printed letters on the page) to the existence of Israel because of her experience as a holocaust avoider and as a victim of anti-Semitic persecution. She and her immediate family survived because they 'passed', they were assimilated into gentile society, they blended - well in truth - the memoir makes clear that teenaged Eva and her brother blended in rapidly and thoroughly Anglicised themselves. At several points she blames anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany on un-assimilated eastern European Jews. That for me was the point, from her family and life she had learnt that standing out and being recognised (as Jewish) was dangerous, passing meant safety, the state of Israel, consciously or unconsciously in her mind, draws attention to the fact of Jewishness in the world and so threatened her. The rest is rationalisation, that is I don't doubt Edith's negative experience or that there was hostility in the 1940s in Palestine from Jews towards German Jews, but I don't think that formed her opinion. I think too that she is wrong about assimilation, anti-Semitism comes first reasons for it come after just as in Alice in Wonderland - first the execution then the trial. People who need to bully others first of all need somebody to bully, having found those people they come up with justifications to mistreat them soon enough.
Eva Figes is the mother of my bete noire - Orlando Figes - and I read this book with no great expectations, but simply on account of my own craziness; I have been trying to increase the amount of books written by women that I read, and this was simply available.
Anyway the memoir is about her and her nuclear family - secular Jews living in Berlin in the 1930s, how they left Germany and settled in London, one day after the war they get a letter from Israel - from their former housemaid Edith - asking if she could have her old job back. In London, Eva talks to Edith who tells her how she survived in Berlin until the end of the war, how she went to Israel and her experiences there.
During that part of the narrative Figes increasingly moves into the opinion part of the work, which is that she does not think that Israel is a good idea, or as she puts it; that it has no right to exist. A way of thinking I have always found odd, probably because I am a blockhead.
There is then a mixture of personal recollections that make up a holocaust survival memoir, and this is particularly interesting because there is an absolute contrast, Figes' family were middle class and were able to buy their way out of Nazi Germany and to buy their way into Britain (though they were also sponsored as part of a job lot by a Rothschild) with their furniture and most of their possessions, the house maid Edith was an orphan who went from the orphanage into service and was abandoned in Berlin and she survived though the kindness of her fellow Berliners (mingled with the help of people who had become anti-Nazi, and in the closing period of the war those who could see which way the wind was blowing and saw in helping Edith a chance to get their Persilschein . In addition one of Figes' grandmothers, an elderly diabetic, stayed in Berlin, leaving for Sweden late in the war without great problems. .
The tendentious part, her hostility to Israel and to much of the foreign policy of the USA is trickier for me to discuss, for one thing she refers to having read and done research, but this book has no footnotes or bibliography, four or five works that she quotes at length are credited, not that I disagree with any of the facts that she mentions but some of what she discusses shades from fact into interpretation and opinion.
I feel after some brief refection that she is hostile ( and there is a lot of anger in the book that I could feel between the printed letters on the page) to the existence of Israel because of her experience as a holocaust avoider and as a victim of anti-Semitic persecution. She and her immediate family survived because they 'passed', they were assimilated into gentile society, they blended - well in truth - the memoir makes clear that teenaged Eva and her brother blended in rapidly and thoroughly Anglicised themselves. At several points she blames anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany on un-assimilated eastern European Jews. That for me was the point, from her family and life she had learnt that standing out and being recognised (as Jewish) was dangerous, passing meant safety, the state of Israel, consciously or unconsciously in her mind, draws attention to the fact of Jewishness in the world and so threatened her. The rest is rationalisation, that is I don't doubt Edith's negative experience or that there was hostility in the 1940s in Palestine from Jews towards German Jews, but I don't think that formed her opinion. I think too that she is wrong about assimilation, anti-Semitism comes first reasons for it come after just as in Alice in Wonderland - first the execution then the trial. People who need to bully others first of all need somebody to bully, having found those people they come up with justifications to mistreat them soon enough.
December 23, 2013
A wretched memoir and a cynical memoirist. Figes, a novelist who wrote an important feminist polemic in 1970, is inexcusably callous to victims—her mother, the family maid, Jewish refugees, America on 9/11, etc. Ostensibly this memoir is about her family’s escape from Berlin and the fortunes of their maid Edith. After surviving the war years relatively unscathed, the maid lived in pre-State Israel on a Kibbutz where she was shabbily treated: indeed, traumatized German-born survivors were looked down upon as weaklings by native Israelis. She then rejoins the family in England for a short, unhappy time. We learn very little about the maid, Figes doesn’t really seem to have cared that much about her, just her ugly experience in Israel. We do hear a lot about Figes’ anti-Zionism, riddled with errors, anachronisms and reprehensible judgments. Figes’ family escaped due to their great wealth; she has no sympathy for the Jewish refugees who had to make due and make a new country after the war.
October 6, 2019
This book is a riveting mixture of personal memoir and political revelation. Figes condemns USA for cravenly conspiring to create a state of Israel, because it wanted to avoid an influx of German Jews after the defeat of Germany in the Second World War, in much the same way as Hitler and, in person, Eichmann, colluded with Zionists to remove Jews from Germany in the 1930s. Eichmann visited Palestine and then warmly recommended it to departing Jews whilst extorting 5,000 Reichmarks (p32). At the same time Figes tells her family’s and their maid’s personal stories of escape and survival.
For such allegations, Jeremy Corbyn has been branded an anti-Semite, but Figes is herself a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Nazism.
There is no doubt that USA militarily and financially supports the state of Israel. What’s new (to me, anyway) in this (2008) book is the claim that Israel is a state born of hatred of Jews from Germany (the ‘yekke’) by the Zionists already occupying Palestinian land (the ‘sabras’ or ‘New Jews’) and that only later did it embrace the holocaust as a causal justification.
Edith, the family’s former maid, (also Jewish) survived being abandoned in Berlin and subsequently went to Palestine, but preferred to return to the family, by then in London, because in Palestine “everybody hates everybody else”. Edith’s experience was that the ‘sabras’, the Jews already in Palestine, despised the holocaust survivors, treated them as scarcely human, blamed them for how the Nazis had treated them (p131) and agreed with Goebbels’ portrayal of them (p132). Figes says the ‘New Jew’ of the Promised Land had ideals remarkably similar to his ‘mirror image’, the ‘old Nazi’ (p135).
Only later did the Israeli state start to claim the holocaust as its justification. Eichmann’s whereabouts were known to it long before it claimed to have hunted him out.
Figes’ family took Edith in, but later also abandoned her. Figes never found out her ultimate fate.
Figes’ book is truly shocking and has been largely, and shockingly, ignored.
A highly recommended read: whether you agree Figes’ analysis or not, it is well worth considering the evidence she presents.
For such allegations, Jeremy Corbyn has been branded an anti-Semite, but Figes is herself a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Nazism.
There is no doubt that USA militarily and financially supports the state of Israel. What’s new (to me, anyway) in this (2008) book is the claim that Israel is a state born of hatred of Jews from Germany (the ‘yekke’) by the Zionists already occupying Palestinian land (the ‘sabras’ or ‘New Jews’) and that only later did it embrace the holocaust as a causal justification.
Edith, the family’s former maid, (also Jewish) survived being abandoned in Berlin and subsequently went to Palestine, but preferred to return to the family, by then in London, because in Palestine “everybody hates everybody else”. Edith’s experience was that the ‘sabras’, the Jews already in Palestine, despised the holocaust survivors, treated them as scarcely human, blamed them for how the Nazis had treated them (p131) and agreed with Goebbels’ portrayal of them (p132). Figes says the ‘New Jew’ of the Promised Land had ideals remarkably similar to his ‘mirror image’, the ‘old Nazi’ (p135).
Only later did the Israeli state start to claim the holocaust as its justification. Eichmann’s whereabouts were known to it long before it claimed to have hunted him out.
Figes’ family took Edith in, but later also abandoned her. Figes never found out her ultimate fate.
Figes’ book is truly shocking and has been largely, and shockingly, ignored.
A highly recommended read: whether you agree Figes’ analysis or not, it is well worth considering the evidence she presents.
August 10, 2019
one of the foprl booksale 14.
oh my, our yekke's final word. my first exposure to eva. she really had a tight reign on her criticism of israel and really everything. do i dare say israel was her mother? it is a seemingly good reflection on a secular german jewish position. i'm struggling with my reaction. i'm sorry mom isn't around to chew this over. it opens a wonderfully painful can of worms. some difficult things are both and rather gray. can we criticize ourselves and transform our distrust?
oh my, our yekke's final word. my first exposure to eva. she really had a tight reign on her criticism of israel and really everything. do i dare say israel was her mother? it is a seemingly good reflection on a secular german jewish position. i'm struggling with my reaction. i'm sorry mom isn't around to chew this over. it opens a wonderfully painful can of worms. some difficult things are both and rather gray. can we criticize ourselves and transform our distrust?
September 20, 2020
I picked out Journey to Nowhere in the library as it looked interesting. I was gripped by the first two sections of the book, in which Eva Figes describes her childhood in Berlin, and how it came to a sudden end, inexplicably from her six year old point of view, in the spring of 1939 with a flight to England. Her mother managed to get her father released from Dachau concentration camp and the family safe to a new life, although in reduced circumstances. Figes describes how her beloved grandfather, a wealthy woman, managed to reach Sweden a few years later but sadly died shortly afterwards. Most of the book is centered on Edith, a young woman who was the family housemaid in their smart apartment building in Berlin. After the war the now teenaged Eva is thrilled to learn that Edith has survived and wants to rejoin the family. However, she realises that her mother sees Edith simply as their housemaid and provides her with spare accommodation and little warmth. Edith was raised in an orphanage and has no family; Eva is the only family member who welcomes Edith with friendship and fond memories of their lost past. The adult Eva begins the book by mentioning the last time she saw Eva, in a hospital in the 1940s.
Poor Edith. While the book is dedicated to her, much of the early chapters are dominated by descriptions of the family dynamics. Fige's account of growing up in post war austerity Britain are fascinating and her portrayal of her frustrations as a teenager - "when Britain had no teenagers"- and her struggles with her mother, who has been changed by trauma and the strains on the family as German refugees struggling to persevere through War torn Britain, are vivid and captivating. Young Eva coaxes Edith to tell her how she survived after the family escaped from Berlin, and the passages depicting how the two form a friendship, and Edith's going underground, finding help from fellow Germans, are harrowing and a tribute to her quiet but indomitable spirit. The moments of human compassion she reveals are compelling.
Sadly, Figes uses the rest of Edith's story as a vehicle to condemn Israel. As Eva Tucker said in her obituary of Figes, "One woman's failure to find happiness is scarcely an indictment of a whole country". The remainder of the book turns into a fierce anti-Israeli polemic. Warning: Figes' assertions that Zionists "collaborated" with the Nazis are the same kind of anti Semitic revisionist "history" that saw Ken Livingstone suspended from the Labour Party. Tucker mentions that Figes had been to Israel once, briefly. She seems to have the impression that the entire country was a kibbutz that required new immigrants to take pot shots at Arabs. I was aware that 850,000 people lived in DP camps throughout Europe after WWII: not all of them were Jewish. Figes argues that the US wanted the displaced people to emigrate to the new state of Israel so the US wouldn't have to accept them all, overlooking the many who emigrated to Canada, Australia, and other countries including the UK.
Figes' depiction of Israel is a country of Jews from all over the globe who have nothing in common with each other and hate each other. Edith confesses that she left Palestine because everyone hates each other- and she is alienated by the kibbutzniks and Eastern European immigrants sneering at her for being a "yekke", a stuck up German unlike the Yiddish speaking Jews who had immigrated to Palestine for love of Zionism. The only other Jewish group Figes mentions are the Ethiopian Jews who are "accepted into Israel when anxiety about population numbers made it expedient to import them". Israel does have problems with tensions regarding African Jews and Mizrahi Jews, but nowhere does Figes consider that many Middle Eastern and North African Jews fled to Israel to escape the persecution they suffered in their native Arab countries. She states, "I do not think there was ever a time when I did not think that the creation of Israel was a historic mistake, unfair to the Arabs, who were in no way responsible for the Holocaust". Her asserting that Israel is a creation of US foreign policy includes observations that the "new Jews", the native Sabras, are mirror images of the Nazis; while discussing the Holocaust she remarks that "the Hollywood films, the endless memoirs, quite a few of them fake, are about personal suffering, and do not answer the the far more important question so many were asking in 1945, how could Germany... descend to this?" Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments, which Figes cites, was indeed exposed as fiction, but the accusation that "quite a few" books by Holocaust survivors are "fake" is deeply troubling. In addition she never considers any criticism of Israel's policies and treatment of the West Bank and Gaza by Israelis. "I thought Edith's story would help expose the truth", she writes in the conclusion, "She was duped, but so were thousands of others". The strident, unbalanced tone of Journey to Nowhere,Tucker professes,does not do Eva justice. The book's contentious viewpoint does not do poor Edith justice, nor does it do justice to the history of Israel and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Don't be duped: read other, less biased and more reliable sources to better understand the history of Israel, the struggles of immigrants to the new country in the post War period, and the current situation.
Poor Edith. While the book is dedicated to her, much of the early chapters are dominated by descriptions of the family dynamics. Fige's account of growing up in post war austerity Britain are fascinating and her portrayal of her frustrations as a teenager - "when Britain had no teenagers"- and her struggles with her mother, who has been changed by trauma and the strains on the family as German refugees struggling to persevere through War torn Britain, are vivid and captivating. Young Eva coaxes Edith to tell her how she survived after the family escaped from Berlin, and the passages depicting how the two form a friendship, and Edith's going underground, finding help from fellow Germans, are harrowing and a tribute to her quiet but indomitable spirit. The moments of human compassion she reveals are compelling.
Sadly, Figes uses the rest of Edith's story as a vehicle to condemn Israel. As Eva Tucker said in her obituary of Figes, "One woman's failure to find happiness is scarcely an indictment of a whole country". The remainder of the book turns into a fierce anti-Israeli polemic. Warning: Figes' assertions that Zionists "collaborated" with the Nazis are the same kind of anti Semitic revisionist "history" that saw Ken Livingstone suspended from the Labour Party. Tucker mentions that Figes had been to Israel once, briefly. She seems to have the impression that the entire country was a kibbutz that required new immigrants to take pot shots at Arabs. I was aware that 850,000 people lived in DP camps throughout Europe after WWII: not all of them were Jewish. Figes argues that the US wanted the displaced people to emigrate to the new state of Israel so the US wouldn't have to accept them all, overlooking the many who emigrated to Canada, Australia, and other countries including the UK.
Figes' depiction of Israel is a country of Jews from all over the globe who have nothing in common with each other and hate each other. Edith confesses that she left Palestine because everyone hates each other- and she is alienated by the kibbutzniks and Eastern European immigrants sneering at her for being a "yekke", a stuck up German unlike the Yiddish speaking Jews who had immigrated to Palestine for love of Zionism. The only other Jewish group Figes mentions are the Ethiopian Jews who are "accepted into Israel when anxiety about population numbers made it expedient to import them". Israel does have problems with tensions regarding African Jews and Mizrahi Jews, but nowhere does Figes consider that many Middle Eastern and North African Jews fled to Israel to escape the persecution they suffered in their native Arab countries. She states, "I do not think there was ever a time when I did not think that the creation of Israel was a historic mistake, unfair to the Arabs, who were in no way responsible for the Holocaust". Her asserting that Israel is a creation of US foreign policy includes observations that the "new Jews", the native Sabras, are mirror images of the Nazis; while discussing the Holocaust she remarks that "the Hollywood films, the endless memoirs, quite a few of them fake, are about personal suffering, and do not answer the the far more important question so many were asking in 1945, how could Germany... descend to this?" Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments, which Figes cites, was indeed exposed as fiction, but the accusation that "quite a few" books by Holocaust survivors are "fake" is deeply troubling. In addition she never considers any criticism of Israel's policies and treatment of the West Bank and Gaza by Israelis. "I thought Edith's story would help expose the truth", she writes in the conclusion, "She was duped, but so were thousands of others". The strident, unbalanced tone of Journey to Nowhere,Tucker professes,does not do Eva justice. The book's contentious viewpoint does not do poor Edith justice, nor does it do justice to the history of Israel and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Don't be duped: read other, less biased and more reliable sources to better understand the history of Israel, the struggles of immigrants to the new country in the post War period, and the current situation.
March 13, 2015
A very interesting view on Jews who survived WWII without much incident and experienced hostility in postwar Palestine. Refreshing.
November 29, 2025
Eva Figes has been one of my favorite writers since reading her book Waking when I was 20: it was a Damascus moment for me on what it was to be a baby, girl, woman, and mother: after it, I never looked at my own mother quite the same way. In this, her final book, she pays tribute to the maid her affluent Jewish family employed in pre-WWII Berlin before they fled, without their maid Edith, to Britain. Years later, when Figes was a teenager, Edith comes to work for her family again in London and recounts her story from 1939 til then. Edith survived the war in Berlin and subsequently moved to Israel, where she found "everyone hated everyone else", and as a "yekke", felt unwelcome. The book then details Figes' research into the founding of Israel (born more of anti-Semitism than anything else!) as a state in 1948, revealing an astonishing fact about President Truman.
February 2, 2025
Refreshingly critical and nuanced view on the state of Israel and about being Jewish in Germany in the 30s
December 24, 2023
¡Woow! Que libro tan increíble y lleno de historia contado a través de los recuerdos de la misma escritora (Eva Figes). Fue muy emotivo leerlo y además muy polémico. La sinopsis de esta obra es sobre la criada de la familia: Edith. La cual fue sobreviviente del Holocausto y estuvo un tiempo viviendo en el recién creado estado que conocemos como Israel, pasado cierto tiempo contacta a la familia a través de una carta para poder así regresar y recuperar su trabajo, “su familia” y/o su anterior vida. El libro fue escrito hace 14 años pero muchas de las cosas siguen muy vigentes, como el actual desplazamiento que se vive en Palestina por Israel con apoyo de EEUA. Es muy triste darte cuenta de la poca empatía que tuvo el resto del mundo con los sobrevivientes del nazismo y como utilizaron esta desgracia las grandes potencias para sacar provecho. En fin, no esperaba mucho de este libro y me sorprendió un montón. Me mantuvo muy interesada y atenta. El final es bastante agridulce y termina con una gran frase: “Vershollen, que tan a menudo aparece junto a los nombres de judíos que murieron en el Holocausto. Desaparecida, desvanecida, perdida. Pero no olvidada”.
April 4, 2015
I was born in 1950, of an ex-RAF father and a fiercely pro-British Canadian mother, both WASPs. I grew up with generally pro-Israel assumptions but no knowledge or understanding. It's very interesting that Figes, 18 years my senior, took so long to address the issue of Israel and Palestine. Somehow the atmosphere, the tenor of the times, must be receptive for ideas to be formulated and expressed,. Once such an atmosphere exists, it's hard to imagine that such ideas were ever unacceptable, still less unthinkable.
I liked this book, even though it's uncomfortable and depressing. It makes me feel ignorant; not only that, it makes me feel duped and misguided and easily led. I recognise now pieces of information about Zionism and the settlement of Palestine which were known to me, but which didn't accord with my world view, so which I simply let lapse.
Eva Figes' memoir is frank, simple, and unsettling, and is a valuable corrective to the diet of pro-Israeli propaganda subliminally touted by the mainstream press and media.
I liked this book, even though it's uncomfortable and depressing. It makes me feel ignorant; not only that, it makes me feel duped and misguided and easily led. I recognise now pieces of information about Zionism and the settlement of Palestine which were known to me, but which didn't accord with my world view, so which I simply let lapse.
Eva Figes' memoir is frank, simple, and unsettling, and is a valuable corrective to the diet of pro-Israeli propaganda subliminally touted by the mainstream press and media.
November 21, 2012
Taught me some new information about events in the Middle East. Very anti-USA
January 31, 2021
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January 6, 2024
cuando lo empecé a leer sentí que era una copia de Anna Frank, pero mientras más vas leyendo más te rompe el alma. Es un libro interesante, y es muy entretenido. Vale la oportunidad
June 20, 2018
Historia / Ensayo de una familia judía que logra escapar de alemania, para instalarse en Londres, l criada que no logra escapar los alcanza y narra su estadía en Alemania en la guerra y su retiro a Israel. arroja luz sobre conflicto Israel/Palestina aunque es una versión muy parcializada
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