LEADER 06104cam a2200877 i 4500001 284260 005 20240621235305.0 008 220525s2021 tnuach b 000 0beng 010 2021033644 015 GBC1I0828 |2bnb 020 9781621907039 |qpaperback 020 1621907031 |qpaperback 020 |z9781621907046 |qelectronic book 020 |z9781621907053 |qelectronic book 024 8 40030966599 035 (OCoLC)on1255216068 035 284260 042 pcc 043 n-us-txe-gx---n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dYDX |dOCLCO |dNYP |dPAU |dYUS |dOCLCO |dJ9U |dPUL 050 00 F394.D219 |bJ54 2021 100 1 Gordon, Karen Baum, |d1956- |eauthor. 245 14 The last letter : |ba father's struggle, a daughter's quest, and the long shadow of the Holocaust / |cKaren Baum Gordon. 246 30 Father's struggle, a daughter's quest, and the long shadow of the Holocaust 264 1 Knoxville : |bThe University of Tennessee Press, |c[2021] 300 xvii, 294 pages : |billustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; |c23 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Legacies of war 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 Dallas, 2002 -- Frankfurt before 1933 -- Germany and America, 1933-1936 -- Frankfurt and New York, Late 1936 -- Frankfurt and New York, Early 1937 -- Frankfurt and New York, Late Spring and Summer 1937 -- Germany, 1937 -- Zurich and Frankfurt, August-September 1937 -- Frankfurt, October-December 1937 -- Frankfurt, January-March 1938 -- Germany, Early 1938 -- Frankfurt and Dresden, April-June 1938 -- Germany, Summer and Late 1938 -- Birmingham, 193 -- Germany, 1939 -- Texas, 1939-1941 -- Germany and America, 1940 and 1941 -- Frankfurt, October 1941 -- Fort Sill, Fort Logan, St. Louis, Camp Lee, Camp Ritchie, and Camp Sharpe, 1941-1944 -- London, Normandy, Paris, and Trier, 1944-1945 -- Frankfurt, 1945 -- Buchenwald, 1945 -- Marburg and Palestine, 1945 -- Dallas, 1959 -- Dallas, 1961-1963 -- Frankfurt, 1972, and Dallas, 1990 -- Dallas, 1991 -- Frankfurt, 1991 -- Berlin, 2000, and Dallas, 2002 and 2005 -- Dallas and Houston, 2008 and 2009 -- My Search Begins, 2009 -- A Trip to Frankfurt, 2010 -- A Trip to Poland, 2010 -- The Stolpersteine at Reuterweg 73, 2011 -- The End of One Journey and the Beginning of the Next, 2013. 520 "Part of the Legacies of War series, The Last Letter is a family memoir that spans events from the 1930s and Hitler's rise to power, through World War II and the Holocaust, to the present-day United States. Karen Baum Gordon's gripping narrative opens on her father Rudy Baum's attempted suicide in 2002 at the age of eight-six and unfolds in an investigation of generational trauma within her extensive German Jewish family. Gordon grounds her research in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum, Rudy's mother and Gordon's grandmother, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. Gordon examines pieces of these worn, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to recreate the fatal journeys of her grandparents in the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich and trace her father's efforts to save them an ocean away in America. Doing so, Gordon discovers the forgotten fragments of her family's history and a vivid sense of her own Jewish identity"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Baum, Rudolph Berthold, |d1915-2009. 600 10 Baum, Rudolph Berthold, |d1915-2009 |xFamily. 600 30 Baum family. 650 0 Jews |zTexas |zDallas |vBiography. 650 0 German Americans |zTexas |zDallas |vBiography. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zGermany |zFrankfurt am Main. 610 10 United States. |bArmy. |bCorps, XX |vBiography. 650 0 Children of Holocaust survivors |zUnited States. 600 10 Gordon, Karen Baum, |d1956- 651 0 Frankfurt am Main (Germany) |vBiography. 650 6 Juifs |zTexas |zDallas |0(CaQQLa)201-0470707 |vBiographies. |0(CaQQLa)201-0380815 650 6 Américains d'origine allemande |0(CaQQLa)201-0069444 |zTexas |zDallas |0(CaQQLa)201-0470707 |vBiographies. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 Enfants de survivants de l'Holocauste |0(CaQQLa)201-0186130 |zÉtats-Unis. |0(CaQQLa)201-0407727 600 37 Baum family. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00215401 610 17 United States. |bArmy. |bCorps, XX. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00598504 650 7 Children of Holocaust survivors. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00855272 650 7 Families. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 German Americans. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00941308 650 7 Jews. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983135 651 7 Texas |zDallas. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204635 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 600 17 Baum, Rudolph Berthold, |d1915-2009. |2nli 600 17 Baum, Rudolph Berthold, |d1915-2009 |xFamily. |2nli 600 37 Baum family. |2nli 600 17 Gordon, Karen Baum, |d1956- |2nli 610 17 United States. |bArmy. |bCorps, XX |vBiography. |2nli 650 7 Jews |zTexas |zDallas |vBiography. |2nli 650 7 German Americans |zTexas |zDallas |vBiography. |2nli 650 7 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zGermany |zFrankfurt am Main. |2nli 650 7 Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of. |2nli 650 7 Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors |zUnited States |vBiography. |2nli 651 7 Frankfurt am Main (Germany) |2nli 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 655 2 Biography. |0(DNLM)D019215 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Biographies. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 776 08 |iOnline version:Gordon, Karen Baum. |tLast letter |dKnoxville : The University of Tennessee, 2021 |z9781621907046 |w(DLC) 2021033645 830 0 Legacies of war. 852 0 |bscstacks |hF394.D219 |iJ54 2021