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A moving memoir of a sons relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss
Jason Sommers father Jay is ninetyeight years old and losing his memory More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWIItorn Europe he is forgetting the stories that defined his life the life of his family and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror Observing this loss Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001
As father and son travel from the town of Jays birth to the labor camp from which he escaped and to Auschwitz where many in his family were lost the stories Jasons father has told all his life come alive So too do Jasons own memories of the way his fathers past complicated and impacted Jasons own inner life
Shmuels Bridge shows history through a double lens the memories of a growing sons complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who now grown finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten
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