Nothing Really Bad Will Happen: A Holocaust Story of Loss and Legacy

Nothing Really Bad Will Happen: A Holocaust Story of Loss and Legacy - Paperback

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Nothing Really Bad Will Happen: A Holocaust Story of Loss and Legacy - Paperback

Nothing Really Bad Will Happen: A Holocaust Story of Loss and Legacy - Paperback

by Deborah S. Holman
$33.73
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by Deborah S. Holman (Author)

Winner of the 2024 Richard G. Tomlinson Literary Award.

Three generations. One hidden history. A family shaped by what couldn't be said.

Vienna, 1938. Six-year-old Doris Lichtenthal flees the only home she has ever known. Her mother, Rose, grips her hand as they board a ship for New York-alone. Doris's father, Paul, has already been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Her grandfather, Sigmund, a respected Jewish hatmaker with a thriving shop, stays behind, believing he still has time. He doesn't.

Doris rarely speaks of what came before. She builds a life in America-marriage, children, forward motion-but the past remains: folded into silences and careful omissions.

Decades later, great-granddaughter Deborah Holman begins asking questions. Through letters, archival research, and family memory, she reconstructs what happened-and what it cost-when survival demanded silence.

Inside you'll find:
  • A meticulously researched family story rooted in documents and letters
  • Vienna-to-America displacement and the long afterlife of trauma
  • A modern genealogical investigation-and what the records still don't say
  • An epilogue on the reparations process and its real-world impact
For readers interested in:
  • Holocaust memoir and family history
  • Genealogy and archival discovery
  • Intergenerational trauma, silence, and survival
Number of Pages: 446
Dimensions: 0.99 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 12, 2024
ISBN9798873749119
Author Deborah S. Holman
PublisherIndependently Published
GenreBiography, History, and Young adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages446
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Young Adult Biography & Autobiography Young Adult History Young Adult Nonfiction Young Adults

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