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To be published: Q4 2024
Gojele. The Jewish adventures of a Christian boy after the end of Shoah. Gojele is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells a story of a twelve-year-old German boy. After World War II, owing to administrative oversight, the boy found himself with his mother in northern Moravia. It was a place in the former Sudetenland (Weidenitz – Vidnava) near the Polish border, where Jews returning from concentration camps were gathered before they were supposed to move to Palestine. Meanwhile, the intended destination for the boy and his mother was actually one of the gathering places for Sudeten Germans before their expulsion from Czechoslovakia (Weidenau – Vidnice).
In Vidnenau, the boy’s mother founds a job for the nascent State of Israel, and it brings the end of starvation for both of them. The protagonist of the novel Heinrich-Adolf, later called Gojele by his new friends, discovers the new complicated Jewish world, that he was used to despise all his life as a member of Hitlerjugend.