Bookshop
Villa Russo (English)
Click the image for further details.
Email Julia to purchase for £18.00 (plus £3 postage), or purchase via the publishers website below.
(Chapter 1, p20-22)
Villa Russo (German)
Click the image for further details.
Email Julia to purchase for £18.00 (plus £3 postage), or purchase via the publishers website below.
Also available via Blackwells and Amazon.
Also available via Amazon.
Villa Russo
“A work of tremendous force and emotion, beautifully written, an important and original contribution to our understanding of the impact of malevolence on a family and its home. A book for our times, sadly.”
— Philippe Sands, QC, Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London
“This book is a finely crafted work which generously offers the reader personal family history and important historical context with some surprising, if disturbing, socio-political background.”
— Gail Simon
Full book review available here.
“It is a harrowing story and Julia Nelki tells it movingly, without pathos, and succeeds in making the search for family members, the narratives of their lives and their fates, a riveting story.”
— John Green, Morning Star
Full book review available here.
Message from Michael Nelki:
“My sister, Julia, has written a book; ‘The Villa Russo', a special house and cheese factory in what was East Germany. It tells the story of the Family Nelki, exploring its roots from Hungary to Berlin to London and around the world (including a Circus), full of “hope and disillusionment". It shows life how it was and is for a Jewish family, but it also serves as a story of any family.
My father, Wolf, did enormous research for this before the days of the internet, smoking a lot of cigarettes, mainly by typewriter and actually visiting places of record keeping; graveyards, police stations, Record Offices, etc, including behind the Iron Curtain, creating boxes of information now correlated by Julia’s enormous efforts and further extensive research.”
— Michael Nelki 21.01.2022
Other publications
Seeking Asylum and Mental Health. Edited by Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki & Alison Summers.
£39.99
Published by Cambridge University Press. Click the link below to buy from the publishers website.
20% discount with code SAMH2022
A Pet in Hiding
by Erna Nelki
Erna Nelki wrote a children’s book ‘A pet in hiding’. Elli Hon did the illustrations.
Click the link below to buy on Blurb.
Witnessing and Bearing Witness. On offering systemic consultations and practices of solidarity at the Uyghur Tribunal.
Burck, C., Hughes, G., Granville, J. ., & Nelki, J.
Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2022): 5.2
https://murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/murmurations/article/view/179
Expert report on the impact on the children of asylum seekers of living for extended periods in temporary asylum accommodation in hotels and/or hostels
Prepared for the court by Dr Julia Nelki, Gillian Hughes and Ellie Kavner – June 2022
Autobiography of a Political Refugee
by Erna Nelki
Erna wrote about her life in a book chapter - Eine stumme Generation berichtet Edited by Gisela Dischner. Published by Fischer Taschenbuch, 1982. This is a copy of the English translation.
The Internment of Women in England, 1940
By Erna Nelki
Erna wrote about her and other women’s experience of internment on the Isle of Man in England during the Second World War.
