The Orpheus Clock, Simon Goodman
The Orpheus Clock, Simon Goodman
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The Orpheus Clock
The Search For My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis

Author: Simon Goodman

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/25/2015

Synopsis

Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. His father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received his father's old papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns, as they were known then, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They also amassed a magnificent, world-class art collection that included works by Degas, Renoir, Botticelli, Guardi, and many, many others. But the Nazi regime snatched from them everything they had worked to build: their remarkable art, their immense wealth, their prominent social standing, and their very lives. With the help of his family, Simon initiated the first Nazi looting case to be settled in the United States.

About Simon Goodman

Born in London shortly after WWII and educated at the French Lycee in London, then at Munich University, Simon Goodman entered the music business in the late 1960s, specializing in breaking new British artists abroad. Goodman is married to the actress and teacher May Quigley and has one son and three daughters. He lives in Los Angeles where his search for his family's treasures continues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on June 13, 2015

Received as an ARC from the publisher. Began 6-8-15. Finished 6-13-15.Compelling story, well-told. The first half of the book describes what the Holocaust did to this wealthy Jewish family in Germany, Including the Nazi thefts of their extensive art collection, as well as collections of friends and......more

Goodreads review by Cindy H. on November 24, 2017

I’m a sucker for any true Holocaust memoir, story - I feel I owe it to those who perished and those that survived that I read their story and hear their voice. This was actually a fascinating story of a family’s accumulation from nothing to owning an empire and then having it all stolen along with e......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on March 28, 2016

More reviews available at my blog, Beauty and the Bookworm. So, I have a thing about history and stolen art, mainly because during this class in college I read a book called The Rape of Europa which was about the rampant art pillaging that went on during World War II. Then I read The Monuments Men, a......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on September 19, 2015

If you loved De Waal's book, The Hare with Amber Eyes, The Orpheus Clock is a must.This is the kind of history I enjoy reading most because it provides a personal provenance for great art that is absent from the general history of the genre.A piece of trivia I picked up in a college Art History clas......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on March 17, 2024

I couldn’t put this book down. It’s so sorrowful and yet its spirit of persistence is so uplifting. All the work the author put into it is just staggering as well. Definitely cried more than once.......more

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