A smile in one eye
Subtitle: a tear in the other
By: Ralph Webster
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016
Place of publication: North Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781533656926
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Creative nonfiction; Refugees; History; Social conditions
Description: "The Wobsers are prosperous, churchgoing, and patriotic Germans living in a small East Prussian town. When Hitler seizes power, their comfortable family life is destroyed by a horrifying Nazi regime. Baptized and confirmed as Lutherans, they are told they are Jewish, a past always respected but rarely considered. This distinction makes a life-and-death difference. Suddenly, it is no longer a matter of faith or religion; their lives are defined by race. It is a matter of bloodlines. And, in Nazi Germany, they have the wrong blood"--Page 4 of cover.