BEATRIX OST, My Father’s House: A childhood in Wartime Bavaria

May 3, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

192 Books, 192 10th Ave, New York, NY

Starting with the discovery of a neglected packet of WWII letters, Beatrix Ost  leads us back through her childhood, and explores the lasting influence of memory.  Her home in Bavaria sheltered forced laborers, gypsies, displaced generals and spies, and Dachau inmates on their way back East.  This is a direct, unsentimental yet poetic memoir,  and one you will not soon forget.