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Author Mahoney, Hildegarde, author.

Title Journey interrupted : a family without a country in a world at war / Hildegarde Mahoney.

Publication Info. New York : Regan Arts, 2016.
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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  940.5481 MAHONEY    Check Shelf
Edition First Regan Arts hardcover edition.
Description ix, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Maps on lining papers.
Summary "In the spring of 1941, seven-year-old Hildegarde Ercklentz and her family leave their home in New York City and set off for their native Germany, where her father has been recalled to the headquarters of the Commerz & Privat Bank in Berlin. It was meant to be an epic journey, crossing the United States, the Pacific, and Siberia—but when Hitler invades Russia, a week-long stay in Yokohama, Japan becomes six years of quasi-detention, as Hildegarde and her family are stranded in Japan until the war's end. In this spellbinding memoir, Mahoney recounts her family's moving saga, from their courage in the face of terrible difficulties—including forced relocation, scarce rations, brutal winters in the Japanese Alps—to their joyous reunion with their German relatives in Hamburg, and their eventual return to New York City in 1950. Richly detailed and remarkably vivid, Journey Interrupted is a story unlike any other—the inspiring tale of an extraordinary family adapting to the hazards of fate, and finding salvation in each other." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Mahoney, Hildegarde.
Ercklentz family.
German American families -- Biography.
Voyages around the world -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945.
New York (N.Y.)
Japan.
Germany.
ISBN 1682450139 (hardcover)
9781682450130 (hardcover)
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