![]() Soon-ho is a former human rights lawyers forced to chase the pay checks of defense work to cover his father’s debts and is assigned a murder case. Jung Woo-sung plays Soon-ho, a talented but morally conflicted defense lawyer, while Kim Hyang-gi takes on the role of Ji-woo, the atypical teen with a fierce intellect but severe social anxiety owing to her autism. Oliver B.INNOCENT WITNESS (2019) Lee Han Emotionally charged courtroom drama comes alive with two outstanding lead performances The odd couple pairing of the ambitious defense lawyer and autistic schoolgirl combine in Innocent Witness to great effect thanks to the performances which punctuate this feel-good drama. This is an important imaginative exploration of our shared past." "This timely and valuable book examines diverse vital stories and the vagaries of childhood memory reported at a substantially later age. "An ever timely account of the traumas that conflict imposes upon children and how they reverberate through time." Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Last Train to London "A life-repairing act of literary generosity, collecting and connecting diverse experiences into a narrative that is, in this particular moment in history, as necessary as it is inspiring." Ronald Leopold, Executive Director, Anne Frank House Innocent Witnesses compels us all to think about who we are and, most importantly, who we want to be." Their stories serve as a mirror in which we must confront ourselves and the pain we are capable of inflicting on others. "The experiences of these children, so sensitively portrayed, offer more than just insight into the tragic wartime history that determined their lives. Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts It is vital that we hear from those who were able to survive such trauma, and go on to live long creative lives." ![]() In Innocent Witnesses, they recall their childhoods in war with heartbreaking clarity. "In a feat of history-making, Marilyn Yalom convinced her friends, all children during World War II, to tell their stories. ![]() Alexandra Zapruder, author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust She has not only made another meaningful historical and literary contribution, but assembled a book that is beautiful and haunting to read." Yalom's wise and sensitive framing brings the accounts of child survivors into vivid focus. "Marilyn Yalom's Innocent Witnesses offers a fresh, meaningful perspective on war trauma among children. Kennedy, author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 These invariably touching tales offer poignant perspective on the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event." They will be among the last from those who lived it. The memories of war captured in Innocent Witnesses are bathed in the guileless luminosity of childhood. "World War II spawned tales of horror as well as heroics. Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz ![]() She brilliantly draws us into the lives of these ordinary children living in an extraordinary time." Marilyn Yalom displays her talent for bringing together stories remembered, filtered by the innocence of childhood. "In Innocent Witnesses, history and memory waltz in step and strain and part. With this book, her final and most personal work of cultural history, Yalom considers the lasting impact of such young experiences-and asks whether we will now force a new generation of children to spend their lives reconciling with such memories. This powerful collage of testimonies offers us a greater understanding of what it is to be human, not just then but also today. But in the circle of safety Marilyn Yalom created for her friends, childhood memories return in all their startling vividness. Memory is notoriously fickle: it forgets most of the past, holds on to bits and pieces, and colors the truth according to unconscious wishes. With Innocent Witnesses, Yalom collects the stories from these accomplished luminaries and brings us voices of a vanishing generation, the last to remember World War II. But over the course of her life, she came to be close friends with many less lucky, who grew up under bombardment across Europe-in France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Holland. Marilyn Yalom experienced World War II from afar, safely protected in her home in Washington, DC. The violence of war leaves indelible marks, and memories last a lifetime for those who experienced this trauma as children. In a book that will touch hearts and minds, acclaimed cultural historian Marilyn Yalom presents firsthand accounts of six witnesses to war, each offering lasting memories of how childhood trauma transforms lives. ![]()
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