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When Time Stopped
- A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Kraus Family Award Winner for Best Autobiography and Memoir at The National Jewish Book Awards
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book.
Of 34 Neumann family members, 25 were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, travelled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo’s eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened.
When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined.
When Time Stopped is an enthralling detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly 90 years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life. In uncovering her father’s story after all these years, she discovers nuance and depth to her own history and liberates poignant and thought-provoking truths about the threads of humanity that connect us all.
Critic Reviews
"It’s not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This is the way bullies work. When Time Stopped is more than just history. It’s a warning." (Michael Palin)
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- Shenphen
- 26-05-2020
Another gem of discovery and the secrets of family
Yes I have read many books from Holocaust, and this one held me captive as it skilfully unravelled. The reader was superb in her telling of this truly intriguing story. Thank you Ariana for telling this story.
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- Jilgal
- 26-09-2020
Really enjoyable
I really enjoyed this book and didn't want it to end, I don't often write reviews but felt this book was a story worth telling and I appreciated the amount of research required to put it all together coherently. It was easy to follow and never boring...Great book!
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- Jenny McDonald
- 04-03-2021
Brilliant
Simply brilliant . A warning for our times of the banality of evil. A slippery slope from demagoguery
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