In 2019 Swedish musical duo Adolphson & Falk released a song based on her story. In 2022 her TEDx Talk, Who Has the Right to History, was shared with TED's 35+ million subscribers. Her work has been featured several times by National Public Radio, the BBC World Service, and German and Swedish national television (See Events & Media).
Julie Lindahl is a multi-national author, educator and activist living in Sweden.įollowing a six-year journey in Europe and Latin America in which she discovered her grandparents' role in the Third Reich, her memoir, The Pendulum, was published and earned wide critical acclaim in the US and in Sweden. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family's secret, discovering history anew, one precarious step at a time, the compassion of strangers is a growing force that transforms her world and the way that she sees her family-and herself."A way can be a guide, but not a fixed path names can be given, but not permanent labels." - Tao Te Ching The pendulum used by Julie's grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the elusiveness of truth and morality, but also for the false securities we cling to when we become unmoored. He eventually fled to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials. During World War II, he was responsible for enslavement and torture and was complicit in the murder of the local population on the large estates he oversaw in occupied Poland. In a remarkable six-year journey through Germany, Poland, Paraguay, and Brazil, Julie uncovers, among many other discoveries, that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since 1934. Out of the unbearable heart of the story-the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations-emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
Called "poetic and heartfelt" and "powerful" by a Publisher's Weekly starred review, read about Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover the truth about her grandfather's history as a member of Hitler's SS elite.This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS.
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