Eleanor Ramrath Garner (Livres)

Eleanor Ramrath Garner Livres

Cette auteure explore de profondes questions psychologiques et éthiques à travers son œuvre littéraire. Son écriture se penche fréquemment sur l'impact des traumatismes historiques, tels que l'Holocauste, et sur la manière dont les récits peuvent favoriser l'autoréflexion et la pensée critique. Elle met l'accent sur la capture d'une voix authentique, en utilisant des techniques littéraires telles que les verbes actifs et le langage figuré pour donner vie à ses histoires. Son travail sert également de pont entre le passé et le présent, éclairant les droits de l'homme et les effets des conflits sur les enfants.

Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany

224pages
8 heures de lecture

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During the Great Depression, when Eleanor is nine, her family moves from her beloved America to Germany, from which her parents had emigrated years before and where her father has been offered a job he cannot pass up. But when war suddenly breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlantic, they realize returning to the United States isn’t an option. They arrive in Berlin as enemy aliens.Eleanor tries to maintain her American identity as she feels herself pulled into the turbulent life roiling around her. She and her brother are enrolled in German schools and in Hitler’s Youth (a requirement). She fervently hopes for an Allied victory, yet for years she must try to survive the Allied bombs shattering her neighborhood. Her family faces separations, bombings, hunger, the final fierce battle for Berlin, the Russian invasion, and the terrors of Soviet occupancy.This compelling story is heart-racing at times and immerses readers in a first-hand account of Nazi Germany, surviving World War II as a civilian, and immigration.