Help "Zol Zayn Shulem" to be published in English

How about supporting something physical that will go into libraries and onto bookshelves?

"Zol Zayn Shulem" (may there be peace) I: Zotres and II: Faroys publish the attempt of a sketching and retelling and the thinking over of the histories of two sides of my family before, during and after the Shoah (Holocaust), for the first time.

The books can be used for education on the holocaust, for example on various concentration camps and the holocaust, as well as understanding of first and second generation traumatisation. It discusses old and modern-day antisemitism and racisms - though with a twist: The thread throughout this book is actually of hope for better, after the Shoah, and so many other catastrophes including a postscript I added on the 7th of October I force myself and the reader to hope.

The books are also unique in certain ways, because little has been published in English about the Jewish "Second Generation" born in Germany after the war. Most of us spent our childhood and youth amongst Jewish survivors and non Jewish-Germans, some of the latter were unresentful Nazis, others would go through fire for their Jewish friends. It explains hints why some of that generation, including myself, left Germany as adults.

In book II: Faroys (forward) I tell the story how I grew up in the Olympic Village, the site of the massacres of Munich 1972, how I travelled to Israel aged 15, and eventually moved to London, where I married Claudia, my wife, who herself has a most fascinating family story, entailing entanglement into the transatlantic enslavement and later return to the "Zion of West-Africa", Freetown.

There is much comment on various episodes of the holocaust and there are even various original poems and notes drawn together from different periods, such as the time of the German unification or diary entries from my grandfather in WWI, as well as first time translations of testimonies that were originally in Yiddish into English. There are over 50 pictures in the books together.

The German book went through multiple corrections. It received several donations, including from two major Jewish foundations, a German company and a crowdfund. Then, whilst getting the book "Soll sein Schulem" published in German, I translated over 700 pages into English.

An amazing volunteer, a retired proofreader, checked both English volumes for errors and to straighten my Germanic English. Now all is ready to go to the printers. I have an amazing quote from an Editing and Publishing team (Wordzworth Books) that is willing to publish both books for me (as self-published volumes).

I have decided on this method because half of the story is my family's, the other my own, and I felt that most publishers wanted either all rights, or they wanted stuff taken out, so that it becomes more dramatic and easy to read.

I have been particular and footnoted much (500+) in the first volume about the past and filled in gaps.

An English copy, would not only enable many more readers to read the book, including people dedicated to the memory of places where my father and his brothers and my grandfather were enslaved Jewish workers of the SS, but also people in the UK and the USA unfamiliar with the stories.

Will you support what kept me busy for the last 13 years?

What your donation pays for:

The books will be available in the UK and other countries.

I will be grateful for all donations received. Depending on how large the surplus is, it can be invested in free copies for smaller public libraries and education centres, costs of talks at schools, and promotion of the book alone.