{"title":"Rosie Whitehouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRosie Whitehouse\u003c\/strong\u003e offers deeply moving narratives that explore personal histories set against the backdrop of turbulent times. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe People on the Beach\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTwo Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e, intertwine individual experiences with broader historical events, creating compelling and poignant stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect immersive accounts that blend biography and memoir with a keen understanding of history and military contexts. Whitehouse's writing honours resilience and memory, shedding light on the human side of history’s most challenging moments.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-people-on-the-beach-by-rosie-whitehouse-9781805261629","title":"The People on the Beach","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests, and endured death marches. Now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories—some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we—and don't we—remember the Holocaust today? This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A remarkable story.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'An important and profound book on the nature of historical memory, and a fascinating exploration of Britain and the Jews. ... A gripping story of human drama and historical seriousness.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Whitehouse's book radiates human understanding, warmth and above all restraint. She understood what many fail to grasp: The story of the Holocaust survivors needs no embellishment.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHaaretz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Whitehouse is a powerful storyteller. She tells some desperately moving stories... Through the story of one ship's journey, Whitehouse has written a book about endurance and survival.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eAssociation of Jewish Refugees Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A fascinating, poignant, exciting and revelatory story, told dramatically yet subtly and meticulously, and filled with colourful and unlikely characters. Part travel writing, part investigative journalism, here is a swathe of world history told through the lives, tragedies, suffering and survival of a boatload of Jewish survivors.'\u003c\/strong\u003e Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of \u003cem\u003eJerusalem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'This is a story that needed telling and Rosie Whitehouse tells it with warmth, energy and empathy—the story of those who survived the greatest darkness, and dreamed of a new life in the light.'\u003c\/strong\u003e Jonathan Freedland, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e columnist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I could not put this book down. Moving, haunting and utterly fascinating, it tells a story of unlikely heroes who should be far better known: survivors, and those who helped them on their illegal journey to Palestine\/Israel. Terrific.'\u003c\/strong\u003e Rabbi Dame Julia Neuberger DBE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Despite knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors faced a hostile world of immigration barriers. 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After their mother was deported to Auschwitz, the two young Jewish women fled to the Alpine skiing town of Val d'Isère, where they were rescued by an incredibly courageous doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough intrepid reporting, sensitive family interviews, and thousands of records, Rosie Whitehouse traces decades-old mysteries of the Müller sisters' story, seeking closure and justice for her family and the doctor's. Why did he shelter them? Who had betrayed their mother? How did this national tragedy happen?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhitehouse's discoveries raise deep moral questions about France's Holocaust, with urgent resonance for today's politics: questions about French complicity, minority agency, collective culpability, duty to your country, and duty to other people. She pieces together not only how the sisters were saved, but how so many others were lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom villagers to Vichy officials, antisemitism to resistance, this is a sweeping yet intimate history of French choices before, during, and after the Nazi occupation; and a moving, gripping tale of forged documents, narrow escapes, one family's trauma, and the grace of human connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A compelling account of survival and remembrance.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'[A] heartrending account... This makes a well-covered historical period feel agonisingly immediate.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRosie Whitehouse's gripping narrative begins with a poignant portrait of a family torn apart but soon broadens into searing questions of dispossession and betrayal that haunt European politics to this day. In illuminating the unyielding spirit of those who dared to defy oppression, Whitehouse masterfully renders the enduring light of human courage against the encroaching shadows of tyranny.'  Benjamin Balint, author of\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eBruno Schulz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, winner of a National Jewish Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBritish journalist Tim Judah was six years old when he asked his mother Marion why she didn't have a mother. \u003ci\u003eTwo Sisters,\u003c\/i\u003e written by the journalist Rosie Whitehouse (and Tim Judah's wife) answers that question in a story that reads like a thriller: a family running from the Nazis and their religion, hoping they would find safety in France. Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eTwo Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the Holocaust in France through a family caught in the maelstrom.'  Edward Serotta, journalist, photographer and filmmaker and Founding Director of Centropa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant meditation on family and trauma across generations, a much-needed critical reappraisal of the Jewish experience in France during the Holocaust, and a reminder of just how complicated and nuanced individual stories can be—even, and perhaps especially, the stories of those we feel we know so well.'  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