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Critical Praise

“In What the Living Remember, Nancy Gerber gives us a coming-of-age story of a German Jewish boy who turns thirteen in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler assumes full control of the German government. Karl Walter faces typical adolescent “crises”: first puppy love; trying to figure out who he is; loneliness; defining his masculinity. But all these are textured by the increasing aggression against Jews (boycotts of Jewish businesses; assaults by Hitler Youth; the Nuremberg Laws) and the ambivalence of highly assimilated, middle class German Jews which prevents many from recognizing what is unfolding before their very eyes. This is an important story that brings the reader into the psychological world of these Jews as they grapple with the “social death” they experience in the pre-war years. It is also a form of Kaddish for the many who found themselves ensnared in the Nazi death trap, unable to escape, and who ultimately perished.”

— Ann L. Saltzman, Professor Emerita of Psychology, Director Emerita, Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study, Drew University