Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life and loss in the shadow of the Holocaust

Oclc number

747205282

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey

Sub title

a Jewish family's untold story

Summary

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this deeply moving account of Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust, and shows how a family was pulled apart under the pressures of living under Nazism and traces their fate in Germany, the US and Palestine

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

Classification