{"product_id":"your-ernst-who-is-always-steven-roesch-9781728333793","title":"Your Ernst, Who Is Always Faithful to You: Letters from Another Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen she was growing up in Nazi Germany, Liselotte Peschel was fascinated with music, literature, and all things scientific and technical. Her bookkeeping job at a local telephone company brought her into contact with Ernst Roesch, a young apprentice eager to master the elements of his trade and bursting with his own ideas about the machines that he wanted to design and build.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir budding friendship seemed to be over when an official letter demanded that Ernst, a half-Jew, report to Gestapo headquarters in Munich early in 1945. Ernst's mother had already been sent away to the camp in Theresienstadt. Now he was shipped off to Wolmirsleben, a slave labor camp in northern Germany-where, early on, he decided that he'd do whatever he could to stay alive, and to keep in touch with the young woman he cared for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt first, when he was still at Wolmirsleben, he sent her a postcard to wish her a Happy Easter. Later-after the camp was liberated, and after he was reunited with his mother and emigrated to America-he began writing letters to her regularly, sharing his thoughts and hopes for his future-one that he hoped would include her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir long-distance friendship took an unexpected turn when Ernst was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951 and then sent to Berlin to work in military intelligence. Now, after a five-year hiatus, he had the chance to meet with her again face to face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages Steven Roesch uses his parents' correspondence from the 1940s and 1950s to tell the story of their early years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Roesch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1728333792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781728333793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Steven Roesch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44169939386623,"sku":"9781728333793","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cf631de-bdab-429e-a723-9b00c688e5c0.jpg?v=1689655871","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/your-ernst-who-is-always-steven-roesch-9781728333793","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}