Letters to My Father

"Memory means that something remains – even when so much has disappeared"
Konrad Bernheimer was four years old when his grandfather brought him back to Munich in 1954 from Venezuela, where the Jewish family had fled from the Nazis. This was the place where the Bernheimers were rooted as art and antique dealers. His Venezuelan mother and his sisters joined him on the journey. His father, Kurt, was also supposed to return with the family, but this did not happen. The young boy was told that his father had died in a car accident. No one in the family wanted to talk about the true circumstances.
It was only much later that Konrad Bernheimer – by then an adult and an internationally successful art dealer – learned what had really happened: his father, who had never been able to overcome the persecution by the Nazis, had taken his own life. This book is the author's moving attempt to enter into a dialogue with his deceased father. A conversation about shame and guilt, about love and formative experiences, and the burden that history imposes on one.

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