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About The Last Visit To Berlin
Product Description One woman’s decision. The fate of an entire family… Berlin, 1933. Erich, a Jew, and Hilde, a Christian, are a young couple, the parents of Yvonne, and owners of a small book publishing firm. With Hitler’s rise to power and the persecution of Jews, their lives are destroyed in an instant. The Nazis burn their books and, fearing for their lives, the family is forced to escape to Holland. The many hardships, however, tear the family apart when Hilde chooses to return to Germany together with Yvonne, leaving Erich, who immigrates to Palestine. Will he ever see his family again? The Last Visit to Berlin is a saga that spreads over one hundred years in the lives of the members of the Freyer family. The novel follows the most difficult moments the family went through. It tells the story of the tragic destiny suffered by generation after generation in Germany and in the Land of Israel, reliving their shattered beliefs and documenting their stubborn insistence on living a good life under the shadow of memories and loss. Review "As you move slowly through the book, which begins as the naive inventory of a Jew in the Holocaust era and ends with a giant python of emotion wrapped around your neck, it is hard to escape the conclusion of one of the Rosenthal women: "There is no time to be a child in this world." - Avraham Burg , Ha'aretz newspaper " The Last Visit to Berlin proves to what extent shelves cry desperately for books with volume and specific weight, that deal with the fate of families and Jews, and with fate in general.Such books enrich their readers and grant them food for thought, bringing us back to the days when the Jewish mother would recommend to her daughter reading a lot to become a lot wiser." - Yaron Avitov, Maariv newspaper "The book in front of us is a courageous attempt to describe the history of the Jewish community of Germany in the last generations, about its various upheavals, contradictions and crises, all through the story of one family, the author's. The story, which moves back and forth in time and places, lays out a panorama of characters that represent the range of diverse currents and moods the German Jewish Community rasped within the space of its world." - Yosef Ben-Tal, Haaretz newspaper "I did not put it down until I finished it, even though by nature I'm not an emotional person, and despite the fact that the book is not sentimental at all. It is very truthful, not because everything in it happened in reality but because there is nothing fake in the writing. You found the appropriate intonation, and the characters behave and speak exactly as we would imagine German Jews in the first half of the twentieth century." - Chaya Hoffman, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature "I finished your book last night at 4 a.m. I couldn't stop crying the death of your father Hans until the very end in Checkpoint Charlie.I never experienced such strong emotions while reading a book." -Yitzhak Eisenberg "As I read your book, I am deeply moved. The fascinating family stories most of us have are still hidden, and here you wrote it, what a story! You truly plunged in and you also revealed yourself from an unknown angle. Hats off to you, it is important to write about these things." - Hanna Herzog, Literature professor, Tel Aviv University From the Author More than one story brought me to this book: the fate of the Jews of Germany from which my forebears arrived after the rise of the Nazis, the death of my father, a German-Israeli poet in his youth, and younger brother's death in the Yom Kippur War. These were interwoven with broader questions: the tragic fate of millions of young people in the twentieth century, the rise and fall of great beliefs, living with loss and mourning. The stories and questions were built into my family's history across three generations, with anecdotes and characters intertwined with one another, describing the fate of German an
