Exile and displacement : survivors of the Nazi persecution remember the emigration experience / edited by Lauren Levin Enzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enzie, Lauren Levin, 1968-

Series:

Literature and the sciences of man ; vol. 22.

Literature and the sciences of man ; vol. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--Biography.

Jews.

Germany.

Austria.

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

History.

Jews--Austria--Biography.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jewish refugees--United States--Biography.

Jewish refugees.

United States.

Jews--Germany--Migrations.

Jews--Austria--Migrations.

Germany--Biography.

Austria--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xvii, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, 2001.

Contents:

I. Departure from Nazi Germany 1

The Americanization of Gunther / Guy Stern 3

Under the Nazi Shadow / Alex Page (Pollacsek) 13

On Becoming an American / Hilda Hertz Golden 31

My Life (selections) / Brigitte Hirschfeld Bodenheimer 49

The Holocaust Experience / Edith Riemer 71

II. Leaving Austria after the Annexation 83

Life Beyond the Reach of Hope: Recollections of a Refugee, 1938 / Philipp P. Fehl 85

Personliche Erinnerungen an den Anschluss 1938 / W. Ernest Freud 101

Fruchte des Vertriebenseins: Betrachtungen eines "Thirty-Eighters" / Harry Zohn 109

Memoirs of a Reluctant Capitalist (selections) / John Heller 125

Sketches / Eva Schiffer 139

III. Trying to Emigrate During the War 161

Preface to a Diary on the Internment of Refugees in England in the Year of 1940 / Peter Heller 163

Memories of Our Wandering Years / Susanne Kirsch Friedmann 181

Walking with Ghosts: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Vienna (selections) / Elizabeth Welt Trahan 199.

ISBN:

0820451606

OCLC:

45008648