Contributor
Gerhardt, Uta, 1938-
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press, c2012.
Descriptionxi, 279 p. : Ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Editorial note and acknowledgements / Uta Gerhardt and Thomas Karlauf -- Foreword / Saul Friedlander -- Introduction: "Thus ended my life in Germany" : 9 November 1938 / Thomas Karlauf -- Part I. The terror. Manuscript 39 (159) / Hugo Moses -- Manuscript 166 (156) / Siegfried Merecki -- Manuscript 252a (28) / Rudolf Bing -- Manuscript 81 (133) / Toni Lessler -- Manuscript 24 (96) / Sofoni Herz -- Manuscript 107 (8) / 'Aralk' -- Manuscript 185 (101) / Marie Kahle. -- Part II. In the camps. Manuscript 202 (207) / Karl E. Schwabe -- Manuscript 74a (130) / Gertrud Wickerhauser Lederer -- Manuscript 235 (192) / Karl Rosenthal -- Manuscript 90 (1) / Georg Abraham -- Manuscript 114 (162) / Hertha Nathorff -- Manuscript 83 (91) / Carl Hecht -- Manuscript 175 (16) / Ernst Bellak. -- Part III. Before emigration. Manuscript 243 (68) / Martin Freudenheim -- Manuscript 137 (15) / Alice Barwald -- Manuscript 232 (245) / Siegfried Wolff -- Manuscript 93 (205) / Margarete Neff -- Manuscript 76a (188) / Fritz Rodeck -- Manuscript 245 (89) / Fritz Goldberg -- Manuscript 105 (108) / Harry Kaufman. -- Afterword: Nazi madness / Uta Gerhardt.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.275-279).
Note:"November 9th, 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germanies assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic program and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally mistreated. Thousands more fled their homelands in Germany and Austria, shocked by what they had seem, heard and experienced. What they took with them was not only the pain of saying farewell but also the memory of terrible scenes: attacks by mobs of drunken Nazis, public humiliations, burning synagogues, inhuman conditions in overcrowded prison cells and concentration camp barracks. The reactions of neighbors and passers-by to these barbarities ranged from sympathy and aid to scorn, mockery and abuse." --book jacket.
