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In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her fathers past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.The darkest shadow is beneath the candle.As a child in Venezuela, Ariana Neumann is fascinated by the enigma of her father, who appears to be the epitome of success and strength, but who wakes at night screaming in a language she doesnt recognise. Then, one day, she finds an old identity document bearing his picture but someone elses name.From a box of papers her father leaves for her when he dies, Ariana meticulously uncovers the extraordinary truth of his escape from Nazi-occupied Prague. She follows him across Europe and reveals his astonishing choice to assume a fake identity and live out the war undercover, spying for the Allies in Berlin deep in the darkest shadow. Having known nothing of her fathers past, not even that he was Jewish, Arianas detective work also leads to the shocking discovery that a total of twenty-five members of the Neumann family were murdered by the Nazis.Spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans, When Time Stopped is a powerful and beautifully wrought memoir in which Ariana comes to know the family that has been lost and, ultimately, her own beloved father.

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MORE PRAISE FOR WHEN TIME STOPPED An astonishing family memoir that will - photo 1
MORE PRAISE FOR WHEN TIME STOPPED An astonishing family memoir that will - photo 2

MORE PRAISE FOR

WHEN TIME STOPPED

An astonishing family memoir that will imprint itself on your psyche Ariana Neumann has breached the hidden surface of her familys tumultuous past and brought not only their tragedies and sorrows but also their joys and loves to indelible light.

JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ , author of The Red Daughter, The Commoner, and Reservation Road

A love letter to a father who, out of sheer will and determination, did not allow the Nazis to destroy himand who rose to become one of Venezuelas most successful industrialists. Part literary memoir, part mystery tale, Ariana Neumanns tribute to her father is a classic story of redemption and love.

JANINE DI GIOVANNI , author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

A fascinating and beautifully constructed memoir, and more than that, a testimonial to the power of meticulous research and family love.

CAROLINE MOOREHEAD , author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets

Remarkable Through painstaking, meticulous research Neumann tells the true storypart memoir, part historyof her heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming journey in uncovering her familys long hidden past.

GEORGIA HUNTER , author of We Were the Lucky Ones

Beautifully written One of the most powerful and profoundly moving family stories of the Holocaust to have been published in many years and a must-read.

DAN STONE , director of the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London

Ariana Neumann has given us a gripping true storythe account of her fathers determination to survive the Holocaust and the clues he left behind. This is nonfiction that reads like a detective thriller.

TILAR J. MAZZEO , author of Irenas Children

When Time Stopped is more than just history. Its a warning.

MICHAEL PALIN

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First Scribner hardcover edition February 2020

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Interior design by Erich Hobbing

Jacket photographs of the author at nineteen, her grandfathers letter, and her fathers watch all courtesy of the author

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019045041

ISBN 978-1-9821-0637-9

ISBN 978-1-9821-0639-3 (ebook)

Pablo Neruda, Si cada da cae, from El Mar y Las Campanas 1973 Pablo Neruda and Fundacin Pablo Neruda.

Pablo Neruda, If each day falls, translated by William ODaly, from The Sea and the Bells. Copyright 1973 by Pablo Neruda and the Heirs of Pablo Neruda. Translation copyright 1988, 2002 by William ODaly. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright 1952 by Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Photo Credits: courtesy of the National Archives, Praha

For Sebastian

For Eloise

For Mara-Teresa

This book is dedicated to the memory of those who could not tell their stories.

Si cada da cae dentro de cada noche hay un pozo donde la claridad est - photo 4
Si cada da cae dentro de cada noche hay un pozo donde la claridad est - photo 5

Si cada da

cae dentro de cada noche,

hay un pozo donde la claridad

est encerrada.

Hay que sentarse a la orilla

del pozo de la sombra

y pescar luz cada,

con paciencia.

If each day falls inside each night,

There exists a well

where clarity

is imprisoned.

We need to sit on the rim

of the well of darkness

and fish for fallen light,

with patience.

Si cada da cae,

EL MAR Y LAS CAMPANAS, 1973

If each day falls,

THE SEA AND THE BELLS

Things are not as easy to understand or express as we are mostly led to believe; most of what happens cannot be put into words and takes place in a realm which no word has ever entered.

Rainer Maria Rilke,

Letters to a Young Poet, 1903

Prologue
1.

There is a question mark, almost lost in a sea of names on the walls of an old synagogue in Prague. Visitors hush children as they pass through each chamber of the Pinkas memorial. It is hard not to be overwhelmed by the dizzying display of black and red letters. They memorialize 77,297 individuals. Each was a resident of the Czech districts of Bohemia and Moravia during the war. All were victims of the Nazis.

Next to every name is stenciled the date of birth, and next to each date of birth neatly sits the date of death.

One entry bears the name of my father, Hanus Stanislav Neumann, born on February 9, 1921. It is different. Unlike the others on that wall, it has no date of death.

Instead, carefully calligraphed, there is an incongruous and bold black question mark.

I visited the memorial in 1997 as a tourist, unaware of any link with the synagogue. Scanning across the top wall to my right as I descended the steps into the first chamber, I was astounded to see my fathers name. He was then very much alive, settled and working in Caracas. And yet the bold question mark was there, both jarring and oddly apposite.

This was the first time I had seen the query inked on the wall, but questions about my father had emerged long before. My quest for answers started when I was just a little girl, living across an ocean and a sea in a very different world.

My fathers name with the question mark tenth line from the top in the Pinkas - photo 6

My fathers name with the question mark, tenth line from the top, in the Pinkas Synagogue, Prague

The questions began with a photograph. They started with a picture that was kept hidden but was then found. A memento left behind by accident or on purpose, perhaps subconsciously, that engendered doubt. An image that was out of sorts with reality, as I saw it, forcing the present into an unfamiliar focus. It prompted questions. It demanded answers of the past.

My childhood memories hum with the songs of troupials, crickets, and frogs. My recollections are cradled by tranquil breezes; they sway to the rhythm of tall palm trees and are lit by the reds and oranges of bird-of-paradise. Yet in all their warmth, color, and chaos, they are punctuated by the crisp metal rotors, wheels, pivots, and mainsprings of mechanical watches, of beautifully intricate movements with complications. Among enormous sculptures, my mother recites verses from Rubn Daro and Andrs Eloy Blanco, and my father dances as he sings Yellow Submarine. In most of my early memories, there are people moving around the open rooms, terraces, and gardenspoliticians, diplomats, industrialists, writers, filmmakers, ballet dancersgesticulating, chatting, laughing, sitting, or standing, invariably surrounding my parents. There is the noise of success, the prattle of happiness, but in some of the memories, the hubbub fades and there is just enough silence to hear the watches tick, click, whir, and chime.

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