There was a garden in Nuremberg by Navina Michal Clemerson

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A spell-binding story of love, family, and sacrifice that chronicles the life of a Jewish family living through Nazi-dominated Germany.

An epic and haunting story set in the city of Nuremberg, There Was a Garden in Nuremberg brings to light the unheard voices of ordinary people as they navigate the peril of Nazi Germany. Based on the author's family history.

About the Book

Harrowing and illuminating, Navina Clemerson’s There Was a Garden in Nuremberg is a powerful reminder of the devastation that shaped Germany with the rise of the Nazi regime. Focusing on one Jewish family, the novel describes the gradual strangling and decimation of Nuremberg’s once thriving Jewish community, which culminated in the demolition of Nuremberg’s synagogue, and in November 1938, the horror of an infamous nationwide pogrom.

Why did they not leave when they still could? What kept them in Nazi Germany?

There was a Garden in Nuremberg shares the intimate experiences of people forcefully swept into a maelstrom of violence and inhumanity.

PUBLISHED on 6 September 2022

Details

Author: Navina Michal Clemerson
Series: WWII Historical Fiction
Genre: New Jewish Fiction
Tags: Audio rights available, Foreign Rights Available, WW2 historical fiction
ASIN: B0B4DX13QW
ISBN: 9789493231542
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List Price: $19,95
eBook Price: $4,95

Navina Clemerson's There was a Garden in Nuremberg is a moving and harrowing book based on accounts and documents of her own family. It captures the almost unimaginably difficult choices people had to make to save their lives and the lives of their children. There is a sense of loss underpinning the story, the loss of a cultured comfortable German Jewish middle class world that had been destroyed. It is riveting, engrossing reading.

– Steven Sedley, MNZM, author of The Deckston Story, published by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand

I am deeply impressed by your breathtaking autofictional family saga of a Nuremberg based well to do liberal German-Jewish family of three generations in the first six years of Nazi-Germany, from 1933 to 1939.

– Dr. Johannes Wachten, former Director of the Frankfurt Jewish Museum

Absolutely riveting reading. Beautiful detail and recreation of the time, with an air of foreboding under each sentence. A novel that will repay re-reading.

– Renee (Ngāti Kahungunu), ONZM, Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement 2018

There Was a Garden in Nuremberg is a tense and terrifying story about the stages of Nazi persecution of the Jews of Germany through the 1930s, told through the eyes of each member of the prosperous Mannheim family. Navina Clemerson has taken a situation with which many readers may be passingly familiar and added new insights with her subtle and empathetic portrayal of each person’s situation. Her extensive and original research adds extra weight and authority. This is an exceptional book.

– Dr. Lynn Jenner, author of Lost and Gone Away

Navina Michal Clemerson

Navina Michal Clemerson was born in London, UK, to refugee parents and spent much of her childhood in France. She obtained degrees in biology and psychology. After some years in Israel, the Netherlands and Italy, she settled with her family in Wellington, New Zealand, where she enjoys an unruly garden.

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