Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory Harry N. Abrams and River hates that everyone

and River hates that everyone in town seems to have forgotten

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Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory Harry N. Abrams and River hates that everyoneSolomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up with the heroic details of their ancestors' exploits. Their great grandmother related how her husband, a boxing champion, thrashed Joseph Goebbels and cleared beer halls of Nazis with his fists in a stunning act of anti fascist history, how she broke him out of an internment camp and carried