My Family's Stumbling Stones: Over 400 Years of family stories, scandals. Secrets and tall tales
By (Author) Anne L Eckstein
Brolga Publishing Pty Ltd
Brolga Publishing Pty Ltd
4th June 2025
Australia
Non Fiction
Paperback
240
Width 135mm, Height 210mm
This memoir traces Annes family back over 400 years from Germany to Palestine to the Americas and Australia. Stories of secrets, scandals and tall tales provide a glimpse of past lives and the times in which they lived.
They also show how greater events influenced how their lives unfolded. Closer to the present, echoes from the past still resonate. The memories of past lives passed down become the stumbling stones which we trip over from time to time. They allow our ancestors to live again, remind us where we have come from, and better see where we might be going.
Anne was born the child of post-war German immigrants and overcame growing up around her mothers mental illness. She graduated university with a Masters Degree. A career as a teacher, advisor, manager and politician followed. She has a lifetime of activism, languages teaching, bilingual education, ethnic affairs and multiculturalism.