Divided lives : the untold stories of Jewish-Christian women in Nazi Germany / Cynthia Crane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crane, Cynthia (Cynthia A.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of interfaith marriage--Germany--Biography.

Children of interfaith marriage.

Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Jews.

Germany.

History.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany--Biography.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 372 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book brings together the horrifying real-life stories of eight German Christian women who were suddenly made aware of, and persecuted for, their Jewish heritage during World War II.

Contents:

I. The Spirit 1

II. The Law 21

III. Stories 41

1. "The Germans and the Nazis were not synonyms for me" / Ingeborg Hecht 43

2. "I was a wanderer between the waves, belonging to no one" / Ingrid Wecker 67

3. "I was born completely poisoned" / Ruth Yost 103

4. "In the Nazi years, I acquired an elephant skin and could handle any kind of treatment" / Ruth Wilmschen 133

5. "One had, at the time, enough possibilities to die" / Ursula Randt 169

6. "I was treated differently because I looked Aryan. That helped me a great deal" / Ilse B 201

7. "God took my life into his hands and I'm forever grateful for that" / Gretel Lorenzen 229

8. "The Hitler ideology was stronger than my life" / Sigrid Lorenzen 243

9. "There was no part of life where you weren't asked whether or not you were Jewish" / Margot Wetzel 269

10. "I stood at eighteen looking into nothingness" / Ursula Bosselmann 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-364) and index.

ISBN:

0312219539

OCLC:

44405664