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The invitation to participate in celebrating the hundredth birthday of my second (or possibly third) cousin, Meir (Frank) Loewenberg arrived by email, symbolising just one of the many changes that have influenced our lives in the last one hundred years.

Both our families originated in Hamburg, Germany, and while Frank was born and spent the first few years of his life there, I and my sisters we

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	CliffsNotes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank (Cliffsnotes Literature Guides) 4.27 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Out of Joint: The Fate of a Family: Historical Novel 3.55 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LEVI KOENIG, A Contemporary King Lear 2.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	THE BALANCING GAME A Child Between Two Worlds, A Society Approaching War a novel by: Dorothea Shefer-Vanson 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Chasing Dreams and Flies: A Tragicomedy of Life in France 2.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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