A Boring Evening at Home

by Klein, Gerda Weissmann

• ISBN13: 9780971007888
• ISBN10: 0971007888
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Intl Pub Marketing

Summary

The book is a glimpse into the life of Gerda Klein, and into the thoughts that have always vindicated her belief that the most treasured place on earth is home, and that the most beautiful and desirable aim for people is to spend "a boring evening" there with family "I have been in a place for six incredible years, where winning meant a crust of bread and to live another day. Since the blessed day of my liberation I have asked the question, Why am I here?... In my mind's eye I see those years and faces of those who never knew the magic of a boring evening at home. On their behalf I wish to thank you for honoring their memory, and you cannot do that in a better way than when you return to your homes tonight to realize that each of you who knows the joy of freedom is a winner. On their behalf I wish to thank you with all my heart." -- Remarks by Gerda Weissmann Klein, accepting the Oscar for the documentary One Survivor Remembers, at the Sixty-eighth Annual Academy Awards in 1996

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
Bread	1	(3)
November 1946, Buffalo, New York
The Beverly Hills Hotel	4	(3)
Late 1960's, Beverly Hills, California
Coming to Buffalo	7	(4)
September 13, 1946, Buffalo, New York
September 11	11	(7)
Niagara Falls	18	(3)
October 1946, Niagara Falls, New York
New Year's Eve	21	(5)
December 31, 1946, Buffalo, New York
The Bookcase	26	(3)
December 1946
April 29	29	(12)
1958, Buffalo, New York
Additional Reflections: 1997, Boston, Massachusetts; 2001, Scottsdale, Arizona
Château on the Marne, Part I	41	(14)
Spring 1950, Buffalo, New York
Château on the Marne, Part II	55	(12)
Coincidence	67	(16)
1960's, Buffalo, New York; 1999, Sydney, Australia
Homecoming	83	(7)
December 1975, Buffalo, New York
The Sultan's Horse	90	(13)
Mid-1960's and reflections on 1946
Grandfather	103	(9)
October 2003, Scottsdale, Arizona
Meet My Son	112	(9)
1978, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Flight	121	(10)
Late 1970's, Chicago, Illinois
Artur/Columbine	131	(8)
October 19, 2000, Littleton, Colorado
Kurt	139	(4)
Letter to My Grandchildren	143	(4)
November 1978, over the Pacific Ocean
Song of the Earth	147
A Poem by Kurt Klein