This was the first of many clues that she was to uncover in the years to come. Then, one day, she found an old identity document bearing his picture but someone else’s name. With no real mysteries to solve, her childish curiosity led her to focus on the enigma of her own father, a brilliant industrialist who appeared to be the epitome of success and strength but who would wake in the night screaming in a language that she didn’t recognize. There is a Czech saying – The darkest shadow is beneath the candle.Īs a little girl growing up in a flourishing 1970s Venezuela, Ariana wanted to peer into the shadows and be a detective. In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
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