Lily, oh Lily : searching for a Nazi ghost /
"What if the dead - our dead- never feel to us that they have gone? If family stories, fragments of their lives, continue to nag and haunt us? Lily Hasenburg was just such a figure in Holman's growing years. She was whispered into his ear by grandmother Eunice - in memorable stories of her...
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Christchurch, New Zealand :
Canterbury University Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Patrick Evans
- Family tree
- In the beginning, the dead
- Home. Listening to Nancy Eunice
- Meeting the remarkable Bywaters
- Cousin Robin and the Jewish husband
- Nanny's address book and Mormon helpers
- Away. I land in Berlin
- Germany is my teacher
- Passing German at the Goethe-Institut
- Encounters in London fields
- Manuel is my Hamburg genealogist
- Grunewald and the leaping hare
- Taking old glory back to Dresden
- Certificates of birth and death
- Victor culture and colonial amnesia
- English Lily in a German war
- Greaty-Uncle Uly and the Gestapo
- Lily is interned on the Isle of Man
- Looking into the graves
- From the Hotel Adlon to Kensal Green
- Home. Coda. The real story of the book
- Postscript: Germany after 1945.