Resilience: From Westerbork to Montevideo

By Simón Mario Tenzer Hertzdahl

The book begins with Leipzig, where my father was born and raised. He continues with Amsterdam, where my mother was born and raised, where my parents met. There Nazism and World War II survived. They were sent to a concentration center for Jews to be transferred to Eastern Europe. From there they went to a prison center in Vittel. Freed by the allies, they decide to go to South America, where my father's family is. They were going to La Paz, in Bolivia. They end up in Uruguay, casting roots until the end of their lives.My parents (...) married in Amsterdam on January 20, 1943, both 21 years of age. They lived together for almost 63 years. In the civil marriage (...) the celebration consisted of eating pea soup.After five and fifteen years of his physical disappearances, I write an appropriate time for the maturation of ideas and feelings. "Mario: The book is a tribute to your parents and in general to a whole generation. In addition to the sentimental, you are motivated by a meticulous and exhaustive registration and information desire, you express how times are changing and how there are things that will be buried forever by the passage of time. Surely in a hundred years, your text will be the document of some researcher. The book, is divided into chapters and so explained, can be read in parts, which adds up because many times we do not have enough time. At some point, we all want to put on paper the life stories that made our lives.Ianai Silberstei

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08BDZ2BCT
• ISBN13: 9798655053120
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"