Jews in Nazi Berlin : from Kristallnacht to liberation / Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schutz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyer, Beate, 1952-

Simon, Hermann, 1949-

Schütz, Chana C.

Stiftung "Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum".

Series:

Studies in German-Jewish Cultural Histor

Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

Jews--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Berlin.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Berlin (Germany)--Ethnic relations.

Berlin (Germany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though many of the details of Jewish life under Hitler are familiar, historical accounts rarely afford us a real sense of what it was like for Jews and their families to live in the shadow of Nazi Germany's oppressive racial laws and growing violence. With Jews in Nazi Berlin, those individual lives-and the constant struggle they required-come fully into focus, and the result is an unprecedented and deeply moving portrait of a people. Drawing on a remarkably rich archive that includes photographs, objects, official documents, and personal papers, the editors o

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Chapter One. 1938: The Year of Fate

Chapter Two. The Juni-Aktion ( June Operation) in Berlin

Chapter Three. The Flight and Expulsion of German Jews

Chapter Four. "Aryanized" and Financially Ruined: The Case of the Garbáty Family

Chapter Five. Berlin Jews: Deprived of Rights, Impoverished, and Branded

Chapter Six. The Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt, 1938-43

Chapter Seven. אף על פי כן (In Spite of Everything): Zionists in Berlin

Chapter Eight. Forced Labor

Chapter Nine. The Rosenstrasse Protest

Chapter Ten. The Deportations

Chapter Eleven. Every Person Has a Name

Chapter Twelve. The Opera Singer Therese Rothauser

Chapter Thirteen. Sad Experiences in the Hell of Nazi Germany: The Scheurenberg Family

Chapter Fourteen. Ruth Schwersenz's Poesiealbum

Chapter Fifteen. Snatchers: The Berlin Gestapo's Jewish Informants

Chapter Sixteen. How the Frankenstein Family Survived Underground, 1943-45

Chapter Seventeen. Banished from the Fatherland: How Hans Rosenthal Survived the Nazi Regime

Chapter Eighteen. The Fine Line between Responsible Action and Collaboration: The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland and the Jewish Community in Berlin, 1938-45

Chapter Nineteen. Oranienburger Strasse 28-31

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Glossary

Contributors

Illustration Credits

Name Index

Notes:

Accompanies exhibition held at the Stiftung "Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum" in 2000.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612445675

9781282445673

1282445677

9780226521596

0226521591

OCLC:

659830101