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Hannah's Dress Berlin 1904 2014Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionHannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin?s modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, journalist Pascale Hugues investigates the lives of the men, women and children who have occupied her ordinary street during the course of the last century. We see the street being built in 1904 and the arrival of the first families of businessmen, lawyers and bankers. We feel the humiliation of defeat in 1918, the effects of economic crisis, and the rise of Hitler's Nazi party. We tremble alongside the Jewish families, whose experience is so movingly captured in the story of two friends, Hannah and Susanne. When only Hannah is able to escape the horrors of deportation, the dress made for her by Susanne becomes a powerful reminder of all that was lost. Author descriptionPascale Hugues is a French writer and journalist who has reported for the French newspapers Liberation and Le Point from Berlin for over twenty-five years. She also writes in numerous German publications and is a columnist for the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Table of contentsContents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Quiet Street in Nice Neighbourhood Chapter 2 Built to Last Chapter 3 Lilli Ernsthaft: Our Doyenne Chapter 4 A Needle in a Haystack Chapter 5 Gunther Jauch at the Jeckes' Chapter 6 The Balcony Across the Street Chapter 7 Hannah's Dress Chapter 8 The Spitting Image of His Father! Chapter 9 We have to save the furniture! Chapter 10 The Roof of the World Chapter 11 And to Think They Lost the War Chapter 12 The Revenants Chapter 13 Finally, Glory! Chapter 14 Frau Soller Moves Chapter 15 Gossip Chapter 16 Rebel Rebel Photo credits |