The Yellow Star That Wasn't: Scandinavia, Miami, and Me

by Cami Ann Green

Overview

The Yellow Star That Wasn't: Scandinavia, Miami, and Me takes the reader from the author's childhood as a Swedish Protestant girl in war-torn Finland to Miami, where, faced with a stream of questions about the Jews in Scandinavia, she discovers that she had to leave home to find a home. Interweaving stories and historical facts about the wartime Jews in Scandinavia, the book is a combination of memoir and history, much of it evolved from the interest expressed by listeners at her ongoing speaking engagements.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162543121
Publisher:	Seagreen Press
Publication date:	04/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Set against the backdrop of Jewish history in Scandinavia during World War II, this 70,000-word historical memoir is about the road of a post-war, Protestant, Swedish girl in Finland to her American obsession with what happened to the Jews in Scandinavia during the Holocaust years of World War II. Readers get important historical facts without being over-whelmed by mind-numbing information, in a way that the previous literature about the years 1940-1945 has not done.

My desperate search to belong takes me from Helsinki to Miami where I fall in love with a Jewish-American man whose never-ending obsession with the Holocaust lays the foundation for my own fixation.
Among my unique qualifications are my proficiency in all Scandinavian languages, and that I - through my ongoing lectures and writings - understand what Americans want to know about this part of history in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

Sample comments post-lectures:
"(the book) successfully weaves the writer's personal story into a narrative of acceptance/intolerance/resilience of the Jews in Scandinavia before, during and after the events of WW-II. Ultimately it's an inspirational story on several levels." (CA gal)
"The history of the Scandinavian Jewish experience of the Holocaust was full of information that was new to me. The writer's lectures revealed the great connection to victims and survivors of the generation that grew up right after WWII." (J&J)