Gated Grief
Leila Levinson
Gated Grief
When I took off the lid, photographs spilled out. There were hundreds of them. A foot emerged from the chaos, a leg. Many legs. Grotesquely frozen faces. My fingers turned the photo over: “Nordhausen, Germany, April 1945.”
After her father died, Leila Levinson discovered his haunting photos of the German concentration camp where Captain Reuben Levinson had encountered hell. To understand the toll of bearing witness to war’s horror, Leila sought out other veterans who had also witnessed the unimaginable and who were then imprisoned by their nightmares.
---James Bradley,
Author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys
Leila Levinson’s Gated Grief speaks to a more universal experience—the trauma of war as it wreaks its hidden havoc over generations. It is a touching story of search, revelation, and recovery.
--Robert H. Abzug,
Author of Inside the Vicious Heart
After the death of her father, a WWII Army doctor, Leila Levinson discovers shocking photos he had taken of a Nazi slave-labor camp. When she learns that he suffered a breakdown after treating the camp's survivors, she seeks out and interviews dozens of WWII veterans who also liberated Nazi concentration camps, all of them unprepared for the unimaginable horrors they found. In this groundbreaking portrait of trauma’s legacy, Gated Grief reveals how the unspoken memories still imprisoning WWII veterans have affected their loved ones as well.
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