For anyone on a life journey through pain towards transformation, Miriam Bracha Heimler's intimate, powerful memoir will help deepen your determination to overcome life's seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Through touching vignettes Heimler paints vivid portraits of her continuing life challenges: She escapes Communist East Germany as an 11 year old just before the rise of the Berlin Wall, leaving her Nazi father in the Communist East. Despite her struggles to overcome loneliness and poverty in a strange new world, and in ...
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For anyone on a life journey through pain towards transformation, Miriam Bracha Heimler's intimate, powerful memoir will help deepen your determination to overcome life's seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Through touching vignettes Heimler paints vivid portraits of her continuing life challenges: She escapes Communist East Germany as an 11 year old just before the rise of the Berlin Wall, leaving her Nazi father in the Communist East. Despite her struggles to overcome loneliness and poverty in a strange new world, and in defiance of having to fight peers' prejudice and feelings of inadequacy, she succeeds in school and university. With great courage and determination she is then able to leave her finally familiar new world in West Germany behind to follow her mentor across the world. Her developing confidence leads her to learn and teach her mentor's method about overcoming adversity, - a subject that she intuitively knew; - a lesson that life had taught her through experience already at a young age. And in yet another growth-step she transforms her spiritual world by becoming Jewish. Her unimaginable joy in marrying her mentor is shattered when she loses him after only a few years of marriage. While still grieving her tremendous loss, she finally develops the courage to again reach beyond her pain and fulfills her spiritual dream by moving to Israel and living a meaningful Jewish life. Heimler's endearing, earthy, captivating style draws the reader into her multi-layered inner world of imagination, determination and hope. The depth of the scenes she paints is reminiscent of great literature of the past, rather than superficial current works. The reader will enrich her / his life by diving into this real life treasure of vulnerability.
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