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Ausländer: One family's story of escape and exile

Autor Michael Moritz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 ian 2026
'Profoundly moving' - Andrew MarrSorting through papers and photographs after his mother's death, Michael Moritz uncovers the history of close family members murdered by the Nazis. Exploring their journey takes him into a past of tragedy, grief andthe dark shadows cast on Jewish life by the Holocaust.Leaving Germany as child refugees, Moritz's parents escape to London before settling in Cardiff, Wales, after the war. But the idea of being a stranger or outsider - Ausländer - haunts the family; running through Moritz's childhood and resurfacing in his adopted home of California, where he has become one of Silicon Valley'smost celebrated investors.'As the shadows of Trump lengthened, the refrain I had heard from my parents rang ever more loudly ... "If it did happen somewhere, it can happen here".'Disturbingly relevant to contemporary America, Ausländer shows what can happen to families whenordinary people hand licence to despots.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781805228349
ISBN-10: 180522834X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 40 images b&w
Dimensiuni: 140 x 220 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Michael Moritz was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1954. A former Time journalist and regular contributor to the FT, he is the author of several books, including The Little Kingdom, the story of Apple's years as a private business. He was a partner in Sequoia Capital for 35 years and led the business between 1995 and 2012, becoming one of the most successful investors of his generation. Together with his wife, the author Harriet Heyman, he formed Crankstart in 2001 - a San Francisco-based foundation devoted to helping those who might otherwise be left behind.

Recenzii

Ausländer casts a unique shaft of light into the darkest years of European history, and a profoundly moving, personal story of disaster and triumph unlike any other you will read.
A magisterial act of filial piety. Michael Moritz encodes and decodes his emotional DNA - and what that means for his reading of the world now. It is rare to be invited to see our world so fully through someone else's eyes.
'Michael Moritz's career as a tech investor has been astoundingly successful, a classic version of the American Dream. Yet this powerful memoir is focused on his Ashkenazi Jewish roots and his enduring sense of being a "foreigner," whether growing up in gritty South Wales or reaching the top in glamorous Silicon Valley. Alienated by recent political developments on both sides of the Atlantic, he articulates a sense of homelessness that many readers will recognize. Once a journalist, he writes with elegance but also with disarming candour.'
When Michael Moritz was diagnosed with a genetic disease, it launched him on a bracingly honest search into his heritage. It's an inspiring and unsettling family and religious tale, but also something larger: a guide to how we all struggle to figure out what we must embrace and what we want to banish from our past.