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August 1, 2006


HEADLINE: Nightmare's Fairy Tale;
Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts;
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Nightmare's Fairy Tale
Gerd Korman
University Of Wisconsin Press
1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor, Madison, WI 53711-2059
www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress
0299210804 $19.95 1-800-621-2736
Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts by Gerd Korman (Professor Emeritus of American History at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations) is the personal and eye-opening story of a young man and his broken family's escape to the refuge of America only months before the beginning of the second world war. As a detailed auto-biographical account of Korman's childhood througha Kindertransport near Warsaw, deportation from Hamburg, a temporarystay with an Anglican family and the reunification of his family andJewish homage in New York. Very highly recommended for its vivid depiction of unseen historical afflictions, Nightmare's Fairy Tale is anideal addition for the reading lists of non-specialist general reading fans with an intrigue for historical, Judaic, and World War II memoirs.