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The Neighbor's Son
Synopsis
What if you awakened one day and realized your parents were part of unspeakable evil? Do you turn away from them and therefore yourself?
The unique coming of age story of Liesel and her preoccupation with finding her neighbor’s son is extremely eventful and takes the reader from postwar Germany to England, Africa and the United States. It explores interconnectedness between victim and perpetrator and touches on universal themes of family, forgiveness, guilt and justice. This candid account of a family’s history combined with a flawed protagonist’s sexual history will strike deep emotional responses in a thoughtful reader.
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Wunschkind
Synopsis
Wunschkind -- German for coveted child -- offers a different perspective on the Holocaust. The moving story chronicles the violent awakening of a young girl, who was born in 1941 as her parents gift to Adolf Hitler, and dedicated to him at two weeks of age. The story is autobiographical and rendered especially for young readers. It follows her early childhood and adolescence. Shocked and confused when she learns of Kristallnacht from a former Jewish neighbor, Liesel begins her journey into adulthood, bearing the secret and unspeakable weight of her parent s guilt.
Since her publication in the Los Angeles Times and adult memoir, The Neighbor's Son, Appel has toured the USA and Canada teaching audiences about the value of multiculturalism and love in a world prone to prejudice and hate.
Appel's writing motivation is her desire to achieve a small measure of justice for her family's former Jewish neighbors, to keep the lessons of the Shoah alive for present and future generations and to empower young people to make choices which are just.
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Grateful Steps
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