The Blue Salon and Other Follies : A Jewish Boyhood in 1930s Rural Germany

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An Autobiography by June D Macintosh. This book is in an used condition. There is bumping to the cover edges and corners. Buying format see all. Publication Year see all. The family doctor sends Mrs. Katz to a mental institution to protect her from the Gestapo. As the Nazis grow even more insidious, the family must take desperate measures to try to save themselves. The Blue Salon and Other Follies lovingly recreates small-town Jewish life in Germany before World War II and dramatically depicts the persecution, struggles and ultimate survival of one Jewish family.

A literary gem and an unforgettable read, The Blue Salon and Other Follies will make you laugh and cry. It is a universal coming-of-age tale in which a boy fights adversity with courage and humor.

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Like an apostle he makes me see the singular story that is always different. His story gives me insight into my history as the son of a survivor of Nazi Germany. Speaking about his father makes me feel like he is describing my Grandfather and his Aunts seem like they are mine. This story reminds me that the past is present and the future should never be behind us. Vernon Katz's book reads like a novel, but is a true story.

The Blue Salon and Other Follies

It's the tale of a young boy -- the author -- growing up in a small town in Germany just before World War II. Katz remembers every detail, telling charming accounts of life with his rural Jewish family. The book becomes darker as the Nazis gain power. The teachers in the school start wearing the Nazi uniform, and the young Katz must endure other children throwing stones at him as he walks to school.

Still his family is loyal to Germany and hopes for the best, not realizing what was to come. Then one morning the stones explode through the windows of their home.

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Later there is a knock at the door, and the police take his father away, transporting him and Katz's uncle with other Jews to Buchenwald, a concentration camp, where they are treated badly. Not long after, Katz's mother goes into hiding to escape imprisonment, and he is left alone in a large house for months. Fortunately, he eventually gains passage on the kindertrain for England. At least for his family, there is a happy reunion in London. This book is funny, charming, and sensitive, and more than that, offers insights into what happened to rural Jewish families at that dark moment of history, seen from the eyes of an alert young man who remembered every detail even after more than half a century.

And, to continue the metaphor, the countless market stalls are well-stocked with any number of mature, unripe and rotten fruits of someone's labour. Not all will make it to the domestic fruit bowl, but this one should. The blue salon of the title epitomises the achingly familiar, but heart-rending, response of many German Jews of my parents' generation to the Nazi strategy to rid Germany of Jews and Jewish life.

The cast of characters - almost in the style of one of those long Russian novels - is listed as an appendix and photographs of many are interspersed throughout the book. The reader is drawn into this memoir not least by the contents page thanks to such irresistible chapter headings as The Fat Krakeeler and Tenants, Pigs and Plumpskloos. The Blue Salon and other Follies is a beautifully written autobiographical account of a Jewish family in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich from until , when they barely escaped to England.

Told with wry humor, the book is a highly personal account, complete with many family photos, of a terrible chapter in human history. What makes this tale so remarkable is that it is told through the eyes of an amazingly perceptive child of five and a half to eleven who possesses a prodigious memory for detail and has subtle insights into complex human relationships. We grow to love a large extended family, warts and all, who consider themselves "Germans of Jewish faith", tracing their German roots back to the 's, the earliest date in which records were kept.

They cannot believe their country is turning against them, which proved to be a fatal attitude for six million people.