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Loading... Walter's Welcome: The Intimate Story of a German-Jewish Family's Flight from the Nazis to Peru (edition 2018)by Eva Neisser Echenberg (Author), Judy Sklar Rasminsky (Contributor) kaulsu | Oct 21, 2018 |   I doubt I am that different from many of my generation (born post-WWII): I’ve read many books about that war—beginning with "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" (Shirer) through political biographies of Churchill, F. D. Roosevelt, Truman, and so on. Biographies and memoirs have long been my favorite genre. And then I have read Jewish accounts of their survival in the camps—such as Victor Frankl’s "Man’s Search for Meaning" on to "A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Boy" by Thomas Buergenthal, the youngest survivor of the camps. (I met Buergenthal, who is now a sitting judge on the International Court of Human Rights.) This, however, is the first book I have ever read that tells of Jewish German repatriation; of the remuneration for lost (stolen?) property by the Nazis; or even of where German Jewish families emigrated to during the days when/if they were allowed to leave—and how they fared. This aspect of Walter’s Welcome was very interesting. Walter himself was a young man of chutzpah! Leaving Europe for South America, learning new trades, a new language….not only making new friends, but the type of friends that enabled him to become a success and therefore, enabled him to bring so many family members out of the camps and to a new world. I only lived in Peru for 2.5 years. There was much Echenberg wrote of that was unfamiliar to me, but not all. It was, therefore, also a trip down memory lane of sorts, for me. I learned of this book through an older alumnus of Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Fred Luss) who knew the author, Eva Neisser Echenberg ’58, the school I nearly graduated from in 1968 (my family returned to the U.S. in the winter of ’68). I read "Walter’s Welcome" through the Kindle app on my iPhone. (  ) kaulsu | Oct 21, 2018 | |
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I doubt I am that different from many of my generation (born post-WWII): I’ve read many books about that war—beginning with "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" (Shirer) through political biographies of Churchill, F. D. Roosevelt, Truman, and so on. Biographies and memoirs have long been my favorite genre.
And then I have read Jewish accounts of their survival in the camps—such as Victor Frankl’s "Man’s Search for Meaning" on to "A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Boy" by Thomas Buergenthal, the youngest survivor of the camps. (I met Buergenthal, who is now a sitting judge on the International Court of Human Rights.)
This, however, is the first book I have ever read that tells of Jewish German repatriation; of the remuneration for lost (stolen?) property by the Nazis; or even of where German Jewish families emigrated to during the days when/if they were allowed to leave—and how they fared. This aspect of Walter’s Welcome was very interesting.
Walter himself was a young man of chutzpah! Leaving Europe for South America, learning new trades, a new language….not only making new friends, but the type of friends that enabled him to become a success and therefore, enabled him to bring so many family members out of the camps and to a new world.
I only lived in Peru for 2.5 years. There was much Echenberg wrote of that was unfamiliar to me, but not all. It was, therefore, also a trip down memory lane of sorts, for me. I learned of this book through an older alumnus of Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Fred Luss) who knew the author, Eva Neisser Echenberg ’58, the school I nearly graduated from in 1968 (my family returned to the U.S. in the winter of ’68).
I read "Walter’s Welcome" through the Kindle app on my iPhone. (