Book
Bronstein's Children
by Jurek Becker
- Published
- 1986
- Genre
- Fiction
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–17
In East Berlin in the 1970s, young Hans Bronstein discovers his father and two other Jewish Holocaust survivors holding a former concentration-camp guard prisoner and trying to force a confession from him. The novel explores memory, justice, trauma, Jewish identity, and the gulf between survivors and the generation born after the Holocaust.
Collections
Halsted - Best Friends
Tags
Family Life-FathersHalsted Best FriendsHistory-HolocaustPeople-JewishPeople-NazisSocial Issues-Justice/Legal Issues