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The Nazis have taken charge and life has changed for everyone. Germany’s Jews live in the grip of icy fear. Members of the prosperous Nuremberg congregation must decide where their future lies. As a board member, decorated WWI veteran and lawyer with a thriving practice, Walter Mannheim is deeply rooted in Germany, whereas his wife Sonia is desperate to extricate their two children from Hitler’s favourite city. Within Nuremberg, power flows between Julius Streicher, the half-mad Nazi District Commander, and ambitious Dr Benno Martin who runs the Police Commission, reputedly Himmler’s man in Nuremberg. He also happens to be an old war-time comrade of Walter Mannheim. Nazi harassment escalates. The Jewish community is decimated. Streicher orders the destruction of Nuremberg’s beautiful synagogue. When a nationwide pogrom is launched on November 9th 1938, Walter and his family are still in Germany. This novel is based on a true story.

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Absolutely riveting reading. Beautiful detail and recreation of the time, with an air of foreboding under each sentence. A novel that will repay re-reading. - Renee (Ngati Kahungunu), ONZM, Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement 2018 Navina Clemerson's There was a garden in Nuremberg is a moving and harrowing book based on accounts and documents of her own family. It captures the almost unimaginably difficult choices people had to make to save their lives and the lives of their children. There is a sense of loss underpinning the story, the loss of a cultured comfortable German-Jewish middle class world that had been destroyed. It is riveting, engrossing reading. - Steven Sedley, MNZM, author of The Deckston Story, published by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand I am deeply impressed by your breathtaking autofictional family saga of a Nuremberg based well to do liberal German-Jewish family of three generations in the first six years of Nazi-Germany, from 1933 to 1939. - Dr. Johannes Wachten, former Director of the Frankfurt Jewish Museum There was a garden in Nuremberg is a tense and terrifying story about the stages of Nazi persecution of the Jews of Germany through the 1930s, told through the eyes of each member of the prosperous Mannheim family. Navina Clemerson has taken a situation with which many readers may be passingly familiar and added new insights with her subtle and empathetic portrayal of each person's situation. Her extensive and original research adds extra weight and authority. This is an exceptional book. - Dr. Lynn Jenner, author of Lost and Gone Away

Absolutely riveting reading. Beautiful detail and recreation of the time, with an air of foreboding under each sentence. A novel that will repay re-reading. - Renee (Ngāti Kahungunu), ONZM, Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement 2018 Navina Clemerson's There was a garden in Nuremberg is a moving and harrowing book based on accounts and documents of her own family. It captures the almost unimaginably difficult choices people had to make to save their lives and the lives of their children. There is a sense of loss underpinning the story, the loss of a cultured comfortable German-Jewish middle class world that had been destroyed. It is riveting, engrossing reading. - Steven Sedley, MNZM, author of The Deckston Story, published by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand I am deeply impressed by your breathtaking autofictional family saga of a Nuremberg based well to do liberal German-Jewish family of three generations in the first six years of Nazi-Germany, from 1933 to 1939. - Dr. Johannes Wachten, former Director of the Frankfurt Jewish Museum There was a garden in Nuremberg is a tense and terrifying story about the stages of Nazi persecution of the Jews of Germany through the 1930s, told through the eyes of each member of the prosperous Mannheim family. Navina Clemerson has taken a situation with which many readers may be passingly familiar and added new insights with her subtle and empathetic portrayal of each person's situation. Her extensive and original research adds extra weight and authority. This is an exceptional book. - Dr. Lynn Jenner, author of Lost and Gone Away

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Navina Michal Clemerson was born in London, UK, to refugee parents and spent much of her childhood in France. She obtained degrees in biology and psychology. After some years in Israel, the Netherlands and Italy, she settled with her family in Wellington, New Zealand, where she enjoys an unruly garden.

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