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OverviewA young Jewish mother. A Nazi occupation bent on genocide. A heart-breaking decision that will tear a young family apart. Belgium, 1940. Melly Bottner is just eighteen with a three-week old newborn son when the Nazi occupation of Belgium begins. She and her young husband Genek live in fear as it becomes obvious that all Jews will soon be taken. Watching friends and neighbors disappear as the Germans carry out their shocking purge, the young family confronts an awful truth: if they are to survive, they must rip their own family into pieces. In this biography from Melly's point of view, author and granddaughter Tammy Bottner delivers a true and moving family memoir. This meticulously written and researched account brings to life the horrific decisions Bottner’s grandparents had to make simply to survive. Through their monumental choices, Tammy Bottner's grandparents ensured the survival of their family and made their post-war reunion possible. Among the Reeds is a deeply personal family memoir that is part-biography, part psychological observation of the extraordinary wartime lives of a persecuted people. If you like true stories of courage, heart-stopping near misses, and tear-jerking choices, then you’ll love Tammy Bottner’s compelling account. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tammy BottnerPublisher: Amsterdam Publishers Imprint: Amsterdam Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.371kg ISBN: 9789492371287ISBN 10: 9492371286 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 09 June 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsDedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Prologue: Tammy, Newburyport, Massachusetts The Offner-Bottner Family Tree Melly: Germany, 1920s and 1930s Genek: Lvov, 1920s and 1930s Melly: Amsterdam and Antwerp A Wedding: Belgium, 1938 Melly: Married Life German Occupation: Belgium, 1940–1941 Melly: Life under Occupation The Anti-Jewish Laws: Belgium, 1942 Melly: A Desperate Decision Andree Geulen and the Resistance: September 1942 Melly: The Family Dispersed Bobby: 1942 Belgium and Holland: 1943 Melly: A Wartime Baby Bobby: 1943 Irene: Namur, 1943 Pictures In Hiding: Banneux, 1943 Back in Lvov: 1939–1943 Genek’s Luck Runs Out: Brussels, 1943–1944 Melly: Visiting Bobby The Tide Turns: Brussels, 1944 Liberation: Spring 1945 Melly: Irene After Liberation Nathan’s Freedom: Cyprus and Palestine, 1947–1949 Melly: Brussels and Palestine, 1945–1949 Reflections on a Calamity Epilogue: Survival Descendants of Leopold and Gertrude Offner: Full Family Tree Sources and Further Reading Further Holocaust Memoirs ColophonReviewsThis is a story, beautifully and sensitively told, that is deeply personal and profoundly universal. 'Among the Reeds' sheds light on the tragic past, helps us appreciate the present and inspires a more hopeful future. - Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD., author of Happier.The Holocaust destroyed the lives of millions of Jews. In this gentle memoir, Tammy Bottner rescues several of those lives from oblivion by telling their story. - Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People. """This book documents another side of the Holocaust: the mix of drama and dreary days, of deprivation and great risk, that many had to endure to evade the Nazis and survive the war."" - Larry Constantine, The Jewish Journal" Author Information"Tammy Bottner is a physician, writer, and mom. She is also the child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors always been fascinated for years about the legacy she carries. Her book Among the Reeds is an homage to her dad, a child survivor who was a ""hidden child"", sequestered in a Belgian convent for 21/2 years when he was only a toddler." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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