A moving memoir of a son’s relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. 

Jason Sommer’s father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terrorObserving this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001. 
 
As father and son travel from the town of Jay’s birth to the labor camp from which he escaped, and to Auschwitz, where many in his family were lost, the stories Jason’s father has told all his life come aliveSo too do Jason’s own memories of the way his father’s past complicated and impacted Jason''s own inner life.  
 
Shmuel''s Bridge shows history through a double lens: the memories of a growing son’s complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who, now grown, finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten.
 


Format Inbunden Omfång 224 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Utgivningsdatum 2022-03-15 ISBN 9781623545123