My father's homeland

It all began with the discovery of a few yellowed letters from the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in the attic of his parents' house in Stockholm. When Torkel S Wächter realized that the sender and his father were one and the same person, a journey began for the author to himself and his own roots. On four continents, he searched for companions of his father who had to leave their homes because they fought against the Nazis or because they were Jewish – or both. He visited and got to know them, listened to their stories, and made new friends. He followed in his father's footsteps through Europe and reconstructed his escape in 1938. This is how this novel came about, which takes place both in the here and now and in the hot pre-war summer of 1938, and which above all makes one thing clear: things that were lost do not have to remain lost forever.

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