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‘Haunting.’ Jonathan Freedland ‘Powerful.’ Daniel
Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one
Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from
Germany to Latvia and to Britain. In November 1941, Peter Bradley's
grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their
home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia. The Last Train is a
profound and moving homage to Peter’s lost family and to his
father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived. It
is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his
family’s story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the
Final Solution. Why did Sally and Bertha’s fellow citizens put
them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? Why did
the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler’s persecution of
the Jews deny them sanctuary? And why, when Peter's father finally
reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration
camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? The quest for answers
led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred
and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from
the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform,
to the catastrophe of the Holocaust. This is the powerful, poignant
story of Peter’s journey through family papers and archives,
through works of scholarship and the testimony of survivors, and
from Bavaria and Buchenwald to the mass graves of the Baltic. And,
reflecting on what he learned, he asks: in the events of our own
times, we are all perpetrators or bystanders or resisters; which of
those roles do we choose for ourselves?
There's a lot more to Calgary than its reputation as an oil boom
town might suggest. With the Bow River coursing through the city
and the 1988 Olympic ski jumps perched on a ridge to the southwest,
Calgary is situated in a diverse landscape. A vibrant downtown, a
legendary Stampede and more outdoor activities within easy reach
than you can shake a hiking stick at all give Canada's Cowtown much
more to display than spurs and Smithbilts. Andrew Bradley provides
dozens of full-colour photographs to the sites and scenes of the
city. This spectacular photographic tour introduces the best
Calgary has to offer, while accompanying text provides great
information on what makes the city unique. Whether it's the rolling
foothills just outside of town, the jagged crags of the Rocky
Mountains or the vast and diverse architecture, Portrait of Calgary
provides a sample of everything.
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