Ausländer: One Family's Story of Escape and Exile, (Hardcover)

<b>A deeply moving and intimate story that reveals how the ravages of history that tore one family apart echo across continents nearly a century later.</b> <p> <b>"A memoir which ranks alongside <i>The Hare with Amber Eyes</i>."--<i>The Times</i> (London)</b> </p><p><b>"Brilliant."--<i>The Economist</i></b> </p><p>Sorting through papers and photographs after his mother's death, Michael Moritz uncovers the history of close family members murdered by the Nazis. Exploring their journey takes him into a past of tragedy, grief and the dark shadows cast on Jewish life by the Holocaust. </p><p> Leaving Germany as child refugees, Moritz's parents escape to London before settling in Cardiff, Wales, after the war. But the idea of being a stranger or outsider--Ausländer--haunts the family; running through Moritz's childhood and resurfacing in his adopted home of California, where he has become one of Silicon Valley's most celebrated investors. </p><p> "As the shadows of Trump lengthened, the refrain I had heard from my parents rang ever more loudly ... 'If it did happen somewhere, it can happen here.'" </p><p> By turns disturbingly relevant and a haunting elegy to his family heritage, Ausländer shows what can happen to anyone, anywhere, when ordinary people hand license to despots.</p>

• Ausländer: One Family's Story of Escape and Exile, (Hardcover)
• Author: Michael Moritz
• ISBN: 9798897101924
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-09-01
• Page Count: 320