Everything is broken inside

Title: Everything is broken inside

Author: Simon Hammelburg

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789402600278

Condition: Good

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Description:
In 1996, the book Kaddisj voor Daisy was published. It was Simon Hammelburg's debut about Holocaust survivors and especially about their children. A moving book about, in fact, the second generation of victims. However, the very favourably reviewed book disappeared from the bookstore after a short time and has not been available until now. Hammelburg has been editing, supplementing and refining the original manuscript for eighteen years. Now it is time to publish the definitive version in Dutch and English.
The main character loses his wife Daisy in a car accident. During the mourning process he decides to travel to the places where he was happy with Daisy. On this journey he meets old friends, acquaintances and fellow sufferers, but also the difficult contact with his family is partly restored. Hammelburg describes not only the reunion, but especially the many conversations in between about the persecution of the Jews, life in the concentration camps, the hope for a new existence in Israel and the loneliness in post-war Europe that was too busy with reconstruction. The damage that the Holocaust caused to those who have to continue living becomes palpable.
I know all about it, Daisy. Still, I can't get angry about it. On the outside, they survived the Holocaust, on the inside, almost everything is broken and you can see that on the outside. Not very pleasant, but there's nothing you can do about it.

The press wrote about Kaddish for Daisy:
'The strength of Hammelburg lies in the unspeakable.' - Trouw
'A liberation that moves you to tears.' - NRC