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Generation Exodus : the fate of young Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany / Walter Laqueur.
Van Pelt Library DS135.G3315 L3713 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laqueur, Walter, 1921-2018.
- Series:
- Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
- The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
- Standardized Title:
- Geboren in Deutschland. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Jews.
- Jewish youth.
- Germany.
- History.
- Jewish refugees--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jewish youth--Germany--Biography.
- Jews--Germany--Migrations.
- Germany--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 345 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, NH ; London : University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- In "Generation Exodus", Laqueur has written the collective biography of a generation unique in history: the children of the German-Jewish families who fled Germany in the 1930s. His focus is on how they adapted and as a group went on to lead productive lives, in spite of having suffered trauma, dislocation and loss, as well as the realization that pure luck alone had saved them. Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1584651067
- OCLC:
- 44669252
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