Why read Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited?

Book cover of Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father's German Village

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Mimi Schwartz's father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he'd tell her, "We all got along." In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Schwartz explored how human decency fared among Christian and Jewish neighbors before, during, and after…

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Ellen Cassedy

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Mimi Schwartz’s Jewish father grew up in a German town where Jews and gentiles got along – until the Nazi era put extraordinary strains on their ability to coexist peaceably. Schwartz explores how people who were not unusually brave managed to perform small acts of kindness and defiance. Her book offers important lessons for our time.

From Ellen's list on The best books on hope and understanding after the Holocaust.