Eleanor Ramrath Garner
Autor(a) de Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany
Obras de Eleanor Ramrath Garner
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1930-05-05
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Locais de residência
- Stratford, New Jersey, USA
Eslohe, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Waldenburg, Germany
San Diego, California, USA - Educação
- Boston University (Business Administration)
- Ocupação
- permissions editor
Artist
memoirist - Relacionamentos
- Garner, Louis (husband)
Ramrath, Frank (brother) - Pequena biografia
- Eleanor Ramrath Garner is a retired permissions editor for textbook publishers. A longtime student of Jungian psychology, Eleanor has written fiction and nonfiction articles on religion and psychology. She also pursues journal writing and poetry.
Garner's parents were German immigrants to the United States. Offered a good job in his field, her father took the family to Germany in 1939, only to be trapped there when World War II broke out. The entire family wasn't reunited in the United States until 1947. This story is recounted in Eleanor's Story.
Eleanor is an exhibiting fine artist. She paints in full, vivid color, having vowed never to let dull lifeless gray come into her life again.
She and her husband, Louis, live in San Diego. They have two sons and four grandchildren. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, hiking, and traveling. [adapted from Eleanor's Story (1999)]
Membros
Resenhas
This is the autobiographical story of a 9 year old American girl who moved to Germany with her family and growing up there during the war. Hitler attacked Poland while they were on the boat to Germany. She tells of what it was like trying to fit in and learn the language and adapt to the fiercely patriotic culture and get along with her relatives in Germany.
The tone in the first part of the book captures the child's carefree spirit rather well and what it must have felt like to be the author. However, as the war progresses she shares several disturbing experiences that would make this a poor selection for young audiences.
It was very interesting reading about their experience with going through bombing air raids and the devastation they caused. Some of her experiences haunted her for many years (probably the rest of her life) and will haunt you a little too.
This book is a vauluable story of civilian life in Germany during WWII and some of the aftermath. She discusses their experiences with racism and the fear people lived in from the secret police. She also relates her reaction to finding out about the holocaust after the war.
When you read about the suffering of others it reminds you how small many of our problems are.… (mais)
The tone in the first part of the book captures the child's carefree spirit rather well and what it must have felt like to be the author. However, as the war progresses she shares several disturbing experiences that would make this a poor selection for young audiences.
It was very interesting reading about their experience with going through bombing air raids and the devastation they caused. Some of her experiences haunted her for many years (probably the rest of her life) and will haunt you a little too.
This book is a vauluable story of civilian life in Germany during WWII and some of the aftermath. She discusses their experiences with racism and the fear people lived in from the secret police. She also relates her reaction to finding out about the holocaust after the war.
When you read about the suffering of others it reminds you how small many of our problems are.… (mais)
This book I believe is a must read in classrooms and will help students understand history and a persons life a little better. This book also went through a lot of emotions and sometimes is hard to handle. It can help children understand war and the evil side of the world simply by reading this story.
This was a well-written book and a different look at World War II than I usually read. Eleanora was a German American who had to go to Germany near the end of the Depression to get work. Of course, they get stuck there and have to endure the bombings from the enemy of the Nazis, the Allies. Then the occupation of the Russians after the war was even worse. It was so real, that it was almost hard to read much at a time.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 225
- Popularidade
- #99,815
- Avaliação
- 4.4
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 7
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It wasn’t just someone writing down what happened, but there was feeling in it. I definitely give it five stars. It was super interesting to read about this amazing girl. I couldn’t put it down! If you enjoy reading stories about WW2 then this is a good one for you. She was close to my age, so she was relatable too! There were a few parts where I felt like i could influence the story, because i was so into it!… (mais)