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Download or read book Tearing the Silence written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.