Description: 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 terror. Observing 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 alive. So 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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Shmuel's Bridge : Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Holocaust, World, Jewish
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Jason Sommer
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
