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Esther Safran Foer

Biography

Esther Safran Foer

Esther Safran Foer was the CEO of Sixth & I, a center for arts, ideas and religion. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Bert. They are the parents of Franklin, Jonathan and Joshua, and the grandparents of six.

Esther Safran Foer

Books by Esther Safran Foer

by Esther Safran Foer - Memoir, Nonfiction

Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching. So when Esther’s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation --- that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust --- Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived.