{"product_id":"nothing-really-bad-will-happen-a-holocaust-story-of-loss-and-legacy-9798994272909","title":"Nothing Really Bad Will Happen: A Holocaust Story of Loss and Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2024 Richard G. Tomlinson Literary Award.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree generations. One hidden history. A family shaped by what couldn't be said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVienna, 1938. Six-year-old Doris Lichtenthal flees the only home she has ever known. Her mother, Rose, grips her hand as they board a ship for New York-alone. Doris's father, Paul, has already been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Her grandfather, Sigmund, a respected Jewish hatmaker with a thriving shop, stays behind, believing he still has time. He doesn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoris rarely speaks of what came before. She builds a life in America-marriage, children, forward motion-but the past remains: folded into silences and careful omissions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, great-granddaughter Deborah Holman begins asking questions. Through letters, archival research, and family memory, she reconstructs what happened-and what it cost-when survival demanded silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you'll find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - A meticulously researched family story rooted in documents and letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Vienna-to-America displacement and the long afterlife of trauma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - A modern genealogical investigation-and what the records still don't say\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - An epilogue on the reparations process and its real-world impact\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Holocaust memoir and family history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Genealogy and archival discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Intergenerational trauma, silence, and survival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorette Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994272909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d","brand":"Deborah S. Holman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750247362741,"sku":"9798994272909","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nothing-really-bad-will-happen-a-holocaust-story-of-loss-and-legacy-9798994272909","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}