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East of Berlin
by Hannah Moscovitch
Standing outside his father’s
study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the
courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same
spot; seven years since he left his family and their history behind
him.
As a teenager, Rudi discovered that his father was a doctor at Auschwitz.
Trying to reconcile his inherited guilt, Rudi lashed out against his
family and his friends, and eventually fled to Germany. While there,
he follows in his father’s footsteps by studying medicine, and falls
in love with Sarah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Questioning redemption, love, guilt, and the sins of the father,
East of Berlin is a tour de force that follows Rudi’s emotional
upheaval as he comes to terms with a frightening past that was never
his own.
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