Title: Journey Interrupted Pdf A Family Without a Country in a World at War
In the spring of 1941, seven-year-old Hildegarde Ercklentz and her family leave their home in New York City and set off for their native Germany, where her father has been recalled to the headquarters of the Commerz & Privat Bank in Berlin. It was meant to be an epic journey, crossing the United States, the Pacific, and Siberia—but when Hitler invades Russia, a week-long stay in Yokohama, Japan becomes six years of quasi-detention, as Hildegarde and her family are stranded in Japan until the war’s end. In this spellbinding memoir, Mahoney recounts her family’s moving saga, from their courage in the face of terrible difficulties—including forced relocation, scarce rations, brutal winters in the Japanese Alps—to their joyous reunion with their German relatives in Hamburg, and their eventual return to New York City in 1950. Richly detailed and remarkably vivid, Journey Interrupted is a story unlike any other—the inspiring tale of an extraordinary family adapting to the hazards of fate, and finding salvation in each other.
Survival, strength of character and success A gripping account of a German/American family’s survival through the hardships of WWII stuck in Japan and post war Germany, through the experiences and lens of a very young girl who matured and acquired strength of character guided by extraordinary parents. Young people in the throes of adolescence should read this. It is a unique story of grit, smarts, empathy, style and, above all, the flourishing of a noble spirit.Well done! I liked the way in which the author portrayed her transition from a young girl to a young woman during the course of the journey. At its beginning, she is focused on childish delights and disappointments, but as she matures, she becomes focused on serious matters and begins to appreciate the difficulties and dangers with which her parents were coping on a daily basis - particularly her father, who took his duty of protecting and providing for his family seriously, all the while being deprived of the ability to earn any money or communicate with relatives and friends in both America and Germany who might have been able to help them. I wish that I had known her father well; I could have learned much from him. Perhaps most wonderful, at the end of the story the author realizes that the family's detention in a small town in Japan during the war years was actually a blessing. Had they stayed in America or arrived in Germany, they would almost certainly have ended up in a concentration camp. God saved them from that.What a book and what an ending. No one could ever write a novel or screenplay with a fascinating story line such as this. Without one or two photographs on almost every page I would have said this was a well written novel! Luckily I stumbled on this book courtesy of Amazon and the reviews. Wartime and post war Japan and Germany in detail as lived by a German American family.
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