2 comments about The Bronski House.

1. Philip Marsden's book is a small masterpiece. It is poetic and evocative. He has a sharp sense of details. No wonder he has now written his first novel after a couple of travel books.
   Trough his friendship with Zofia Illinski and access to her mother's letters, diaries etc he portrays a lost world, the upper classes in Poland and Belarus between the wars, and how their world is completely shattered by it.
   The various personalities in the book are fascinating among them Zofia's mother who is an exceptional woman, strong, talented, beautiful and with a spirit that saves the family from extinction.
   Marsden's journey together with Zofia to her childhood is very moving.
   All in all this is a very good read. You don't have to be interested in Poland or in history and the likes. This book will interest and move you.



2. The language is so poetic and fluent, it hurls you away, lightly and fluffily to a different era; a world long gone and forgotten. It has something of an East European Gone With The Wind theme, only much more concise and fleetingly. I longed for more pages, a hundred more, fivehundred more, in this novel too timid and subdued somehow. Perfect script for a fullblown-no-expenses -spared Hollywood film!

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2 comments about Condemned Without Judgement: The Three Lives of a Holocaust Survivor.

1. This book made me cry, how is it possible to survive does losses the pain the hunger and then not be hostile but teaching students never to hate.Mr Linder must be a very special man.I never will forget this book.Thank you for your sharing your pain with us.JW



2. About how many books can you say they have changed your life? This book certainly changed mine. I have read many accounts of the holocaust,but this one stands out. Mr linder describes his life before and during the war and describes his experiences in the death camp with brutal honesy. He did what he could to stay alive. He has no self pity and doesnt see himself as a vitim .I was asking my self throughout the book what has helped him to survive when so many others didnt? My own answers helped me look at life in a way I never did before.

   I can only imagine how painful it was for Mr Linder to write this book. This is a special gift to al of us.Mr Linder, you will always be my hero!

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1 comments about My Life of Turmoil.

1. My Life of Turmoil: A Jewish Immigrant's Story and Warning is the autobiography of Holocaust survivor Larry Wenig, whose trials did not end with the close of World War II - he endured hardships at the hands of the Soviet Communists in a Siberian gulag, and survived living in a Uzbekistan mud hut followed by an Austrian Displaced Persons camp, arriving in the United states at age 22, weak, nearly penniless, and knowing no English. His determination to rise above the odds, and his willingness to put in long hours of work while studying at night school led him to achieve his dream of becoming a lawyer. My Life of Turmoil blends resolute determination with the wonder of falling in love and marrying an exceptional woman - yet beyond the biographical narrative is a deeper purpose. Wenig writes to warn readers about the global threat of anti-Semitism and Islamofascism, from the perspective of one who has witnessed hatred, intolerance, and genocide carried to their most horrifying extremes. Highly recommended reading.

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