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The Unspeakable: Breaking my Family's Silence surrounding the Holocaust

by Nicola Hanefeld
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789493322967
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam Publishers
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  • Pages: 348
  • Original Price: USD 26.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 622 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust

Researching family history means stepping into the unknown; Nicola discovered that after an old passport (issued in 1935) unexpectedly fell into her life in 2004. The passport owner was her grandfather's sister, and it marked the start of a journey into the tragic past. The Unspeakable is a thoughtfully constructed and moving Holocaust memoir, vividly blending the author's first-person experiences during her research. The truth gradually emerged about never-mentioned relatives who were German-speaking Czech Jews the Nazis had murdered.


The author shares her experiences of sudden shifts in consciousness and the bewildering sadness that overcame her as she drew lost family members out of history and they regained their identity. Compelling, unpublished writings of relatives who survived World War II surfaced and revealed the quiet side of the Holocaust: dispossession, involuntary emigration, identity issues, and suicide. The narrative tells how intergenerational trauma can evolve and explores reasons for the older generation not speaking about the past with younger family members. The Unspeakable shows how present generations may discover how little they know of their forebears' background struggles and losses. These issues are chillingly relevant to the present day.

Hanefeld, Nicola: - Nicola Hanefeld was born in 1958 in London and grew up in England, unaware of her Jewish heritage. She has lived in Freiburg in south-west Germany since 1981. Shortly before her father died, he shared never previously mentioned facts about his family. Her father's revelations sent Nicola on a heart-breaking journey to discover the Holocaust trauma silently embedded in her family. As she is fluent in German, she could understand the historical documents in German which surprisingly came to light during her research. Nicola has a degree in biology, a PhD in maternal health and is a freelance Alexander Technique coach. She's a mother of three grown-up children and has three grandchildren.

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