Local author features at Khandallah Library

By Frank Neill

Khandallah author Navina

Clemerson is the guest presenter at the Khandallah Library’s “Evening with an Author” tomorrow, 24 March.

Starting at 6pm and running to 7pm, Navina will give a presentation on her recently published book “There was a Garden in Nuremberg”.

Harrowing and illuminating,“There was a garden in Nuremberg” is a novel based on the true story of her family – a Jewish family – under Nazi rule. It isa tense and terrifying story about the stages of Nazi persecution of the Jews of Germany through the 1930s, told through the eyes of each member of the prosperous Mannheim family.

Walter Mannheim is a successful lawyer in the once-thriving Jewish community of Nuremberg. He assumes the defence of those trapped in the Nazi web of false accusations and lies.

His wife, Sonia, is convinced there’s no future for the family in Germany:

Sonia is desperate to protect their two children, Max and Helena, who experience contempt and abuse at school. Walter tells his childrenthat the situation will not last, but the antisemitism intensifies steadily.