TY - BOOK AU - Freeman,Hadley TI - House of Glass: the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family SN - 9780008322632 (hbk.) : AV - DS135.F9 U1 - 920 GLA 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - 4th Estate KW - Glass family. KW - Freeman, Hadley KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - France KW - Biography KW - Jewish refugees KW - United States KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - When Hadley Freeman found a shoebox filled with her French grandmother's treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of her grandmother, Sala, and her three siblings, Henri, Jacques and Alex Glass. The search takes Hadley from Picasso's archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Aushwitz. Hadley had only really known that her grandmother had met her American grandfather through her brother Alex in Paris, and that she travelled to America to marry him in the late 1930s. But by piecing together letters, photos, and an unpublished memoir, Hadley is able to thrillingly recount the full story of all the Glass siblings ER -