by finn ballard | Sep 6, 2018 | Blog
Several of you recommended this title to me in the last few months, so I am especially pleased to suggest our book of the month for June as Philippe Sand’s ‘East West Street’ (2017). A mixture of family memoir with a compelling legal history, the...
by finn ballard | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog
A detail of a statue at the German Resistance Memorial Centre, formerly the site of the Bendlerblock in Berlin.
by finn ballard | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog
Otto Weidt (born on May 2nd, 1883) and his wife Else operated a factory employing blind and deaf craftspeople, many of whom were Jewish, in the Hackescher quarter of central Berlin. As a young man, Otto Weidt’s eyesight declined, though he would serve as a...
by finn ballard | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog
Sometimes I leave Berlin and explore other cities in Germany! Here’s the old town in Frankfurt am Main, Germany’s financial capital.
by finn ballard | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog
This month, I wholeheartedly recommend Thomas Harding’s Hanns and Rudolf. In a unique double-biographical style, Harding contrasts the decisions and destinies of Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who had fled to England and served as a Lieutenant in the British...
