Still Talking
“His father, Berthold, owned a prosperous butcher shop. In that family they believed that if you did well financially, you were smart. If you did poorly, you were dumb.
The family, threatened by the Nazis, fled first to the larger city of Hamburg, and then, when Edgar was eight, to Copenhagen, Denmark. Edgar told me that they crossed the German border with only what they could carry, and he had chosen his pet canary and toy soldiers. At the crossing a Prussian guard took these most prized posses...sions away from him.
Perhaps this one terrifying moment of helplessness accounts for his continuing need to own things. Edgar did not have one shirt, he had fifty.
I do not know how many watches he owned. After two years, as anti-Semitism grew in Denmark, the Rosenbergs decided to move to South Africa, a haven for many European Jews. They settled in Cape Town. By now, after all the uprooting and losses, Edgar was a loner-shy, introverted, awkward at making friends, indulged by his mother. But he was a star student who read a half-dozen books a week.MoreLess
The family, threatened by the Nazis, fled first to the larger city of Hamburg, and then, when Edgar was eight, to Copenhagen, Denmark. Edgar told me that they crossed the German border with only what they could carry, and he had chosen his pet canary and toy soldiers. At the crossing a Prussian guard took these most prized posses...sions away from him.
Perhaps this one terrifying moment of helplessness accounts for his continuing need to own things. Edgar did not have one shirt, he had fifty.
I do not know how many watches he owned. After two years, as anti-Semitism grew in Denmark, the Rosenbergs decided to move to South Africa, a haven for many European Jews. They settled in Cape Town. By now, after all the uprooting and losses, Edgar was a loner-shy, introverted, awkward at making friends, indulged by his mother. But he was a star student who read a half-dozen books a week.MoreLess
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