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With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust out of the shadows. As the girls get older, they start to wonder about their parents' pasts, and they begin to demand answers. But it soon becomes clear that those memories will be more difficult and painful to uncover than they could have anticipated. Poignant and haunting, The Takeaway Men explores the impact of immigration, identity, prejudice, secrets, and lies on parents and children in mid-twentieth-century America.
With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust out of the shadows. As the girls get older, they start to wonder about their parents' pasts, and they begin to demand answers. But it soon becomes clear that those memories will be more difficult and painful to uncover than they could have anticipated. Poignant and haunting, The Takeaway Men explores the impact of immigration, identity, prejudice, secrets, and lies on parents and children in mid-twentieth-century America.
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About the Author-
Meryl Ain is a writer, author, podcaster, and career educator. The Takeaway Men, her award-winning post-Holocaust debut novel, was published in 2020. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications and she is the author of two nonfiction books. A member of The International Advisory Board for Holocaust Survivor Day, she is the host of the podcast People of the Book, and the founder of the Facebook group "Jews Love To Read!" She holds a BA from Queens College, an MA from Columbia University, and a doctorate in education from Hofstra University. She and her husband, Stewart, a journalist, have three married sons and six grandchildren and live in New York.
Reviews-
A Jewish family that survived the Holocaust begins life anew in the United States but remains haunted by the past in this historical novel. Aron and Dyta Lubinski escape the terror of Nazi tyranny in Poland and spend four years living in a displaced persons camp in Warteplatz, once a summer camp for Hitler Youth. While there, Dyta gives birth to fraternal twins Johanna and Bronka. They relocate to New York City and are given a home Aron's relatives Izzy and Faye. The two New Yorkers also offer Aron employment at one of their bakeries. But despite the Lubinskis' good fortune, they are haunted by the traumas they suffered in their native Poland, especially Dyta's familial past. Now answering to the Americanized name Judy, she shamefully hides her father's role in the abuse of Polish Jews just as Aron zealously attempts to shield his daughters from the weight of the hardships the couple shouldered: "Although he was grateful to be alive and in the United States at this moment, the pain and horror his own family had endured was never far from his mind. But he had already vowed to himself that he would not inflict his story on his children." Ain poignantly captures the painful paradox of the Lubinskis' new life--safer and more prosperous than ever before, they can still never outrun a dark history that doggedly follows them like a shadow. When a neighbor spots Rudolf Schmidt, a former Nazi guard from Auschwitz and cruel murderer of Jews, Aron and Judy are again reminded of the long reach of the past, which their daughters are increasingly curious about. The author's tale is sensitively composed, a thoughtful exploration into the perennially thorny issues of religious identity, assimilation, and the legacy of suffering. But Ain's prose is plainly clear at best and earnestly lachrymose at other times. She also overindulges in didactic commentary--she strains too laboriously to draw a moral lesson for her readers. A powerfully touching story sometimes prone to sentimental sermonizing.
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