Driven to make sense of her father’s suicide attempt, Gordon examines her family history, uncovering lines of generational pain.
Karen Baum Gordon poses with her father, Rudy Baum, the subject of her memoir, "The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust."Karen Baum Gordon knows how to tell a story, and most of all, how to begin one.
World history left its mark on her childhood, too. She was a second-grader at Preston Hollow Elementary School when President John F. Kennedy came to town in 1963. Because she grew up here, returning is always memorable, most of all for the homecoming it represents. Her older siblings, Richard and Diane, also grew up in Dallas.
Rudy hailed from Frankfurt, Germany, from which his parents were deported in 1941. Both parents died in 1942 in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland.
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