L'Dor Va Dor Series 2023: AUTHOR TALK - NAVINA MICHAL CLEMERSON

AUTHOR TALK: NAVINA MICHAL CLEMERSON

Silences and Serendipity: My experiences in Nuremberg, while carrying out research for my novel 'There was a garden in Nuremberg'.

Navina will talk about her experiences during researching her novel based on her family history. Q & A at the end.

Harrowing and illuminating, Navina Clemerson’s 'There was a garden in Nuremberg' is a powerful reminder of the devastation that shaped Germany with the rise of the Nazi regime. Focusing on one Jewish family, the novel describes the gradual strangling and decimation of Nuremberg's once-thriving Jewish community, which culminated in the demolition of Nuremberg's synagogue, and in November 1938, the horror of an infamous nationwide pogrom.
Why did they not leave when they still could? What kept them in Nazi Germany?

'There was a garden in Nuremberg' shares the intimate experiences of people forcefully swept into a maelstrom of violence and inhumanity.

Author Bio: Navina Michal Clemerson was born in London, UK, to refugee parents and spent much of her childhood in France. She served in the Israel Defence Forces and has also lived in the Netherlands and Italy. She is a member of Wellington's Progressive Jewish Congregation, Temple Sinai. Navina has published several books: Removing the Stumbling Stone (2004), The Jews of Nuremberg, 1839-1945, a translation of Bernhard Kolb's memoir (2016), and There was a garden in Nuremberg, a novel based on her own family's history (2022).