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This surprising memoir has all the ingredients for a Merchant Ivory multi-episode TV production. A sensitive and acutely aware child, the daughter of an autocratic Nazi ambassador who secretly opposes the Hitler regime, vividly remembers her earliest experiences growing up in China and Vladovostsic in lucid prose which often crosses the border into poetry. The venure proceeds to America via horrific sea voyages, to an idyllic interlude in Kentucky, reminiscent of "National Velvet" with just a soupcon of (gasp) depraved sex. Another sea voyage to Cuba then back to New York,a now thoroughly rebellious egalitarian young lady, tries to defy the upper-class pretensions of her aristocratic father, who has been (double gasp) carrying on an extended love affair with his wife's sister. Her family, having no income, other than what her loving, long-suffering mother earns doing domestic work, struggles at the edge of poverty throughout these tumultuous years. Despite this, the author's father still has the connections to arrange for her and to overpower her vigorous objections, to appear as Miss Germany in a coming out society ball. Then, once again, against her will she is shipped over to Germany to live with a venerable noble family while completing her education. More reluctant appearances at glittering Austrian society balls; being courted (unsuccessfully) by the scion of an aristocratic family: thence back to America, and not yet twenty years of age! (Whew!)
This synopsis seems almost too fantastic to be believed. However the story as it unfolds in compelling, lucid detail, has the unmistabable aura of authenticity. I look forward to (if there is any literary justice in this world), Volume Two.
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In the mid-1930s, author Vera Haldy-Regier’s father, a minor, recalcitrant diplomat in Hitler’s government, is banished to a post in Vladivostok, Russia, and later to the former German lease territory of Tsingtao, China.
While openly critical of the Nazis, he nonetheless remains employed by the German Foreign Office until the end of the war. Together with his wife, he is instrumental in obtaining food and money for the small community of Jewish refugees that fled to Tsingtao, and endures several threats to his life from Nazi officials. After Hitler’s defeat, the family loses nearly all its possessions to the Chinese revolutionaries before escaping to the West on an American troop transporter.
Their early years in America are filled with severe financial need. But in the midst of hardship, there are gifts of love, support, and friendship that became beacons of enduring hope. Haldy-Regier’s poignant memoir traces the family’s path from Germany to America via Italy, Turkey, Russia, Japan, China and Cuba. It carries triumphant messages of love, forgiveness, and gratitude for gifts gathered amidst the ruins of war and the pain and injustice of intolerance.
“As one who knew the author’s family in China, I was deeply moved by this beautifully written, honest account of the triumph of a young girl’s spirit in her ever-tilting world.”
—Eva Pulverman Jellin
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