Jewish Telegraph

December 9, 2016

jewish-telegraph Ahead of the paperback edition of Stolen Legacy going on sale in the UK next week, the Jewish Telegraph has published this feature.

“A lot of people have told me that the book is crying out to be made into a film, which I think would be wonderful.”

Last month, the British government reaffirmed its commitment to help Holocaust survivors whose property was taken.

“I have done book tours in America and been mobbed, with people telling me their grandmother or uncle or some other relative died and that they have found papers which prove the family owned a property somewhere,” Dina said.

“I can only wish them well and hope they are as fortunate as I was in proving their claim.”

Standpoint magazine

December 2, 2016

cover In a glowing review of Anthony Rudolf’s book “Jerzyk” in the December/January edition of Standpoint Magazine, Michael Pinto-Duschinksy writes:

“Anthony Rudolf has produced a small jewel of a book. He tells a compelling, tragic story that brings the reader close not only to the realities of the Holocaust but also to its impact on the survivors and their children over many years.”

While praising Stolen Legacy, Pinto-Duschinsky concludes his review with some sobering remarks:

“Jerzyk is one of the finest books about the Holocaust this reviewer has read in recent years. It stands alongside books such as Samuel Kassow’s Who will write our history?, a study of the Ringelblum archive of the Warsaw ghetto, Barbara Barnett’s The Hide and Seek Children and Dina Gold’s Stolen Legacy (recently republished in an extended version). By contrast, several over-ambitious writings intended as Holocaust bestsellers have been deeply disappointing — opinionated, frequently politically biased, careless with the facts, and tendentious in their theses.

Nor is the tide of such works diminishing. The attack on Holocaust memory comes from varied sources: the attempt to “explain” rather than record, commercialisation, anti-Zionism, German greywashing, trivialisation by Hitler/Stalin equalisation, pro-Zionism. Serious, genuine writings such as Jerzyk are all too rare.”

News story in The Observer

November 27, 2016

To coincide with the paperback edition’s U.S. launch this week, The Observer published an article offering a taste of some of the new material. Here’s the headline and opening sentence:

Family’s quest for truth reveals top insurer’s link to SS death camps

Dina Gold researched her family’s Berlin past – and uncovered a dark secret dating from the Nazi era.

Los Angeles Paralegal Association

August 31, 2016

lapa A lovely review by Christine Langteau in the August edition of the Reporter, the newspaper of the LAPA.

Ms. Langteau is clearly well aware that there is much unfinished business where Nazi stolen property is concerned. She writes:

Gold’s journalist background enables her to provide a rich review of a prominent family before World War 2, the building it owned, and the ordeal it took to get it back. Her detailed and extensive coverage of the trail leading to recovery comments on the suffering of the Jewish people under the hands of the Nazis. Stolen Legacy is another important story illuminating the extent of the theft of extraordinary property.