When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

Name: When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
ISBN: 9781982106126

by Ariana Neumann

Dayton Literary · 2021 · Winner

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ScribnerMarch 3, 2020Nonfiction Biography & Memoir HistoryISBN 9781982106126

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction	2021	Winner	“When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2021.”

About This Book

Ariana Neumann, daughter of a wealthy Venezuelan businessman who was himself the son of Czech Jewish refugees, pieces together her father's extraordinary story of survival in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and Berlin—a story he never told her fully. Using a cache of letters, documents, and photographs discovered after his death, she reconstructs a life of unimaginable peril and loss. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction.

About the Author

Ariana NeumannVenezuelan-American

Ariana Neumann is a Venezuelan-American author. Born in Venezuela to a family of Czech Jewish refugees, she grew up without knowing the full story of her father's survival in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and Berlin during the Holocaust. Her debut book When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains (2020) reconstructs that story through her research into his wartime life, using documents, photographs, and letters discovered after his death. Read more →