Edith Netter, a retired lawyer, mystery fan, and world traveler, uses her skills and interests to uncover and narrate in the voice of her grandmother stories about her family.

Edith Netter, a retired lawyer, mystery fan, and world traveler, uses her skills and interests to uncover and narrate in the voice of her grandmother stories about her family.

The House at Schumannstrasse 7 is a story about Alice and Heinrch, Jewish-Germans, who were caught between two countries, two world wars and the politics of identity. In 1915, the British imprisoned Heinrich because he was German. In 1938, Nazis sent him to Dachau, where he was tortured and released. He sought sanctuary in England. The British imprisoned him. Alice fled Germany by “sealed train” a short-lived, but live-saving service.

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