” I wanted to go back and really, really understand my father, and piece the story together.” Ariana Neumann shares the writing of her book – When time stopped – A memoir of my father’s war and what remained. “I think we all have a narrative thread that we sort of weave through our lives…I think if I had a horrendous trauma like my father had…that narrative thread would break…. There was no way he could have his past and his present life, together.”
His life during the war was saved by the Nazi’s lack of imagination.
I tried to catch and hold his gaze while I told him I loved him. I realize now that there are sorrows that cannot be conveyed.; wounds with which you learn to live, but never completely heal.
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