Episode 3139: A THOUSAND KISSES: A FAMILY'S ESCAPE FROM THE NAZIS TO A NEW LIFE by John W. Weiser

This Week in America with Ric Bratton

A Thousand Kisses: A Family's Escape From the Nazis to a New Life by John W. Weiser

Intimate and harrowing, this memoir of love, escape and redemption is a rich account of the Weiser family's life and flight from Nazi Vienna to Hungary to Brazil and to the U.S. It will keep the reader glued to a narrative that skillfully recreates the palpable tension of multiple escapes. A Thousand Kisses is at once instructive about a family’s courage and determination to stay together and about the dangers of remaining silent while a government tightens immigration laws and promotes racial scapegoating.

A graduate of Holy Cross College and Harvard law school, Weiser was a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Shearman & Sterling. Afer 20 years there, he accepted an offer to become the General Counsel of Bechtel Group Inc., an international engineering construction company. On retirement Weiser joined the board of the Graduate Theological Union, a consortium of nine seminaries of different religions. He eventually served as Chairman of the Board for eight years, the maximum allowed. Then Weiser joined United Religions Initiative, the world’s largest grassroots interfaith organization. There he served as Chair of the President’s Council, a senior advisory group. Weiser and his wife Maria had nine children. They have 12 grandchildren. Maria died of cancer and Weiser later married Sue Cony, an old friend. They live in Dominican Oaks, a retirement community in Santa Cruz CA.

https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Kisses-Familys-Escape-Nazis/dp/1978318073/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title

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