A Final Reckoning a Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah.
Title:
A Final Reckoning a Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah.
Author:
Gutmann, Ruth.
ISBN:
9780817387181
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Publication Information:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages).
Series:
Judaic Studies Series
Judaic studies series.
Contents:
Foreword -- Kenneth Waltzer; Acknowledgments; Time Line; Prologue; 1. Early Years; 2. The Nazi Noose Tightens; 3. Kindertransport to Holland; 4. Families Bloemkoper and Meijer; 5. We Are Back in Hannover; 6. Theresienstadt; 7. Birkenau; 8. Reichenbach and Four Other Lagers; 9. Liberation; 10. Time to Reflect; 11. Then and Now; Afterword: Primo Levi's Last Book; Appendix: Circular for Jewish Community Members Anticipating Deportation; Notes; References; Index.
Abstract:
Ruth Herskovits Gutmann' s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939. The false expectation of being allowed to immigrate to Cuba as a family led her father, Samuel Herskovits, to bring the twins back to Hannover in 1941. Rather than receive travel visas, however, they, their father, and their stepmother, Mania, were arrested and deported first to Thereisenstadt.
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