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Twists of Fate
A Hamburg Family 1904-1941
Ernest H. Sanders
(olim Helmut Salomon)
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Price: $16.95
Printed Casebound | 99 pages
ISBN: 978-3-86965-122-4 |
Summary
Paul Salomon was a successful Hamburg bank manager - until 1933. He had become prosperous within a few years, bought a handsome house in Harvestehude and was able to afford his children a carefree youth - almost. With this book, his son Ernest H. Sanders, who emigrated to New York in 1938, gives an account of the rise and fall of his family in Germany. The stealthy transformation from a "normal" civil life to - at first unacknowledged - persecution, which resulted in the suicide of both parents on 21st September 1941, is recounted in a subtle and therefore moving way. In spite of these painful experiences, Sanders retained a close connection to his native city which his thankfulness towards his school, the Johanneum in Hamburg, and especially towards his class shows, enabling him to take his school leaving examination in spite of contrary orders - thereby laying the foundation for his future in the United States.
About the Author
Ernest H. Sanders (olim Helmut Salomon) was born in 1918 in Hamburg (Germany). A son of the bank director Paul Salomon, he had a carefree childhood until the rise of National Socialism. In 1938, Sanders emigrated to New York, where he started an academic career in musicology. He retired in 1987 after nearly thirty-five years of teaching at the Department of Music at Columbia University in the City of New York.
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