Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust by Bottner, Tammy

Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974523504)

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Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust by Bottner, Tammy

Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust

$25.00
Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust by Bottner, Tammy

Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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During the dark days of the Holocaust, a Jewish family struggles to survive

When her son was born, Tammy Bottner experienced flashbacks of being hunted by the Nazis. The strange thing is, these experiences didn't happen to her. They happened to her grandmother decades earlier and thousands of miles away.

Back in Belgium, Grandma Melly made unthinkable choices in order to save her family during WWII, including sending her two-year-old son, Bottner's father, into hiding in a lonely Belgian convent. Did the trauma that Tammy Bottner's predecessors experience affect their DNA? Did she inherit the "memories" of the war-time trauma in her very genes?

In this moving family memoir, told partly from Melly's perspective, the author, a physician, recounts the saga of her family's experiences during the Holocaust. This tale, part history, part scientific reflection on epigenetics, takes the reader on a journey that may read like a novel, but is all the more fascinating for being true.



Author: Tammy Bottner
ISBN-10: 1974523500
ISBN-13: 9781974523504
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2017
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

By Tammy Bottner
By Tammy Bottner
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I am a physician, writer, and mom. I am also the child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors. I have been fascinated for years about the legacy I carry. It is a heavy one. In my new book I explore the science of epigenetics, the idea that traumatic life events change one's genes, and that these altered genes may be passed along to subsequent generations (such as myself). In Among the Reeds I recount the way my grandparents managed to save both themselves and their young children in the darkest days of European history. The book is an homage to my dad, a child survivor who was a 'hidden child', sequestered in a Belgian convent for 21/2 years when he was only a toddler

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