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  Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story
Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story
 
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Gemma La Guardia Gluck, Rochelle G. Saidel

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Press


A significant memoir of Holocaust, American, and European history, and an intimate glimpse into the life and times of a fabled family.

Born in 1881 in New York City, Gemma La Guardia Gluck was the daughter of an American army bandleader and European mother of aristocratic Italian Jewish lineage. She was the sister of beloved New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Gemma and her Hungarian Jewish husband were living in Budapest in 1944 when Nazi troops stormed the city. The Gestapo arrested her as a political prisoner because she was La Guardia's sister.

Gluck recounts the plight of Budapest's Jews, deportation to Mauthausen with her husband, and enslavement at Ravensbrueck, a notorious concentration camp for women. With painful sensitivity she chronicles unspeakable evil, kindness at great risk, and courage among women in a prefeminist world. She also recalls her girlhood years spent in the Old West, Native Americans befriended by her mother, international travel with her father, and her brother's ambitions and rise to success.

Her story, first published in 1961, has been out of print for decades. This revised edition contains a new prologue, epilogue, photos, and annotated material inspired by recently discovered notes and letters.

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