Echoes of Exile

A Family's Odyssey Through the Holocaust and Cold War

Author: Daniela Spenser Series: War, Memory, and Culture

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In Echoes of Exile, Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

Critic Reviews

"Spenser's erudition as a writer and scholar shines through. . . . [Echoes of Exile] is a fascinating and highly readable account of the author's family history during a tumultuous period in world history. It is a story worth telling." --S. Jonathan Wiesen, coauthor of Nazi Germany: Society, Culture, and Politics

"Weaving her Jewish family's odyssey through the brutal prism of 20th century Eastern Europe and two enforced Western exiles, Daniela Spenser has produced a compassionate, yet admirably detached and scholarly book, which serves as a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit and faith in progressive politics."
--Kevin McDermott, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University.

"A well-organized book, well written, and highly readable. The history and research done on the historical evidence is excellent and sits well alongside the family's story." --David A. Messenger, author of War and Public Memory: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Europe

About the Author

Daniela Spenser is a fellow at CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico City. She is author of The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s and Stumbling Its Way Through Mexico: The Early Years of the Communist International.