Searching Survivor and the answer I found [Perfect Paperback]

MARION BAUMANN-PARKHURST (Author), Tracey Edge (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0977725154 | ISBN-13: 978-0977725151 | Publication Date: May 7, 2007 | Edition: 1st

In her unique and endearing style, Baumann-Parkhurst recounts for us her childhood memories, her touching relationship with her father, and her challenges she later encountered as a young Jewish woman and wife under German persecution. Her world in turmoil, uprooted from her home, confronted with indescribable suffering and cruelty, losing the ones she loved most.... where was God in all of this? The author's stubborn will to live spurs her on though each new challenge and tragedy, and in the process she discovers the God she has been searching for her whole life. Baumann-Parkhurst's engaging story will both enthrall and move you, and you will triumph with her as she finds forgiveness and peace with her Creator.

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About the Author

Marion Baumann-Parkhurst, was born in 1912, the daughter of Julius and Frieda Rosenthal, and is a Holocaust survivor of Bergen-Belsen. She had an uneventful middle-class childhood with her Jewish parents in Konigsberg, East Prussia. Her performance in school was average but with an idyllic home life until the Hitler years. Always athletic, she had been in serious training as a 1936 Olympics contestant until participation was denied to her on religious grounds; the Nazi government would refuse an honor won by a Jew in accordance with the 1934 Nuremburg Laws which effectively canceled the family's German citizenship. The escalation of Nazi oppression created an exodus of the Jewish population although Marion's parents opted to remain in the country. But when the government confiscated the father's advertising business the family, penniless, fled to Holland while that country was still free. It was there that Marion met and married Walter Baumann. Nazi occupation of the Low Countries saw most Jews sent to concentration camps, including her parents who there lost their lives. Marion and Walter were sent to Bergen-Belsen, there to remain until set free by Allied troops toward the end of the war. They were then returned to Holland as stateless, displaced persons. The couple, by that time with a newborn daughter, turned toward America, settling finally in California.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Genie Press; 1st edition (May 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977725154
• ISBN-13: 978-0977725151
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,388,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible read, May 31, 2007

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K. Wilson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Searching Survivor and the answer I found (Perfect Paperback)

This lady went through something so traumatic and then to come out the other end and find Christianity, as a Jewish person, is about as unique as it comes...

4.0 out of 5 stars Only a few survivors are left, August 2, 2008

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Cheryl Taylor (Mount Hermon, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Searching Survivor and the answer I found (Perfect Paperback)

I bought this book because I have met the author and her husband Don a number of times. She is a dear lady with a generous heart and the spirit of a true survivor, which sustains her even now through health difficulties. I am so glad she has "landed" in a pleasant place. I loved reading volume 1 of her story; I am looking forward to volume 2.