Jumping over shadows: a memoir

First thought -- Fait accompli I -- First date -- Sholem Aleichem -- Mea culpa -- Heading off -- Spain -- The talk -- Israel -- Behind walls -- Surberg -- Sanatorium Brey -- Verjudet -- Crematorium -- In the stairwell -- A quarter and a half -- Unwanted relations -- The Flying Dutchman -- This is what it means -- Sheet of ice -- Fait accompli II -- Jumping over the shadow -- Proposal -- The rabbi -- Wedding day -- Conversion -- Christmas -- Gefilte fish -- Haselnusstorte -- A German Jew like you -- The pintele yid -- A visit with the past -- Briosne -- Sh'ma -- Epilogue.;"When Annette Gendler falls in love with a Jewish man in Germany in 1985, she knows their love has already happened--in her own family, no less. Her German great-aunt Resi was married to a Jew in Czechoslovakia before World War II--a marriage that created tremendous difficulties for the extended family one the Nazis took over. Annette and Harry's love, meanwhile, is the ultimate nightmare for Harry's family of Holocaust survivors. Weighed down by the burdens of their family histories, the keep their relationship secret--but can their love overcome the shadows of the past?"-- Back cover.