Life and loss in the shadow of the Holocaust : a Jewish family's untold story / Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boehling, Rebecca L., 1955- author.

Larkey, Uta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ostrand, Marianne Steinberg, 1911-2002.

Ostrand, Marianne Steinberg.

Steinberg family.

Kauffman family.

Jews--Germany--Essen--Biography.

Jews.

Jews, German--United States--Biography.

Jews, German.

Jewish refugees--United States--Biography.

Jewish refugees.

Jews, German--Palestine--Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Life & Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was pulled apart under the Nazi regime and dispersed over three continents. The family's unique eight-way correspondence across two generations brings into sharp focus the dilemma of Jews in Nazi Germany facing the painful decisions of when, if and to where they should emigrate. The authors capture the family members' fluctuating emotions of hope, optimism, resignation and despair as well as the day-to-day concerns, experiences and dynamics of family life despite increasing persecution and impending deportation. Headed by two sisters who were among the first female business owners in Essen, the family was far from conventional and their story contributes new dimensions to our understanding of Jewish life in Germany and in exile during these dark years.

Contents:

German-Jewish lives from Emancipation through the Weimar Republic

Losing one's business and citizenship: the Geschwister Kaufmann, 1933-1938

Professional roadblocks and personal detours: Lotti and Marianne, 1933-1938

The November pogrom (1938) and its consequences for Kurt and his family

New beginnings in Palestine, 1935-1939: Lotti and Kurt

Rescuing loved ones trapped in Nazi Germany, 1939-1942

Wartime rumors and postwar revelations.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p.[252]-325) and index.

ISBN:

1-139-36571-1

1-107-22639-2

1-280-66394-4

9786613640871

1-139-37826-0

1-139-03027-2

1-139-37540-7

1-139-37683-7

1-139-37141-X

1-139-37969-0

OCLC:

794327719