Rosemarie, Kristallnacht Transformation

Rosemarie, Kristallnacht Transformation
Author: Charlie Liebert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980816850

Rosemarie Liebert was twice a Jew. She was the daughter of a Jew and she was married to a Jew. It's Berlin, Germany, November 12, 1938 the day after Kristallnacht. Her uncles Jewelry store has been looted. All 19 members of her three uncle's families disappeared. She knew now she had to find a way to hide. The "escape bag" could save her letting her become her dead cousin Olga. Olga died in Africa with no record of her death in Germany. This is the story of how Rosemarie, the twice Jew, survives the Holocaust as the gentile Olga Quandt. The Gestapo's pursuit is relentless. Authors note: I dedicate this story of my aunt to my 19 family members who did not survive the Holocaust.Berlin, downtown, November 12, 1938, 1:15 AM. Rosemarie stopped at the corner and looked down the street toward her uncles Hans and Fritz's Jewelry store. As she expected the windows were broken and the glass and other remnants of the previous night's looting were still on the sidewalk. On the far corner two Gestapo stood under the street light smoking. She recognized them by the "funny S" on their uniforms as her dead Jewish husband; Albert had called those shoulder markings. Looking back across the street she noticed the sign with the store name was smashed on the sidewalk. The advertising sign that usually hung in the window "Diamanten und Gold zu verkaufen" (Diamonds and Gold For Sale) was on the sidewalk below the window. Painted on it in large, red letters was the word JUDEN! The building had not been burned because it adjoined a building on north side that held Gentile stores. She knew she had to see if the "escape bag" was still there, but she would have to wait until the SS were gone. That bag could be the difference between life and death. As she stood there waiting she thought: "How did I ever get to this situation?" As she stood at the corner waiting, her thoughts flashed back to some of her life events.

Fassbinder's Germany

Fassbinder's Germany
Author: Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9053560599

Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most prominent and important authors of post-war European cinema. Thomas Elsaesser is the first to write a thoroughly analytical study of his work. He stresses the importance of a closer understanding of Fassbinder's career through a re-reading of his films as textual entities. Approaching the work from different thematic and analytical perspectives, Elsaesser offers both an overview and a number of detailed readings of crucial films, while also providing a European context for Fassbinder's own coming to terms with fascism.

Besa

Besa
Author: Norman H. Gershman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2008-12-12
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780815609346

Besa is a code of honor deeply rooted in Albanian culture and incorporated in the faith of Albanian Muslims. It dictates a moral behavior so absolute that nonadherence brings shame and dishonor on oneself and one’s family. Simply stated, it demands that one take responsibility for the lives of others in their time of need. In Albania and Kosovo, Muslims sheltered, at grave risk to themselves and their families, not only the Jews of their cities and villages, but thousands of Jews fleeing the Nazis from other European countries. Over a five-year period, photographer Norman H. Gershman sought out, photographed, and collected these powerful and moving stories of heroism in Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II. The book reveals a hidden period in history, slowly emerging after the fall of an isolationist communist regime, and shows the compassionate side of ordinary people in saving Jews. They acted within their true Muslim faith.

Holocaust and Nature

Holocaust and Nature
Author: Didier Pollefeyt
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 3643903138

This volume makes clear how Nazism was not only an attack on the human species and the Jewish people in particular, but also an attack on nature. Further, it examines the victims of the Holocaust for whom nature was not only a source of supplementary pain, but also a source of hope and redemption. The book reveals parallels between the attitudes of the bystanders during the Holocaust and us - bystanders today - watching the ecological disaster with the same passivity. The book's unique conclusion will challenge each reader. In addition to teaching us to be critical about our concepts of nature, as well as to remember the victims, the Holocaust also teaches us to become rescuers rather than bystanders in light of the contemporary destruction of nature. (Series: Geschichte des Holocaust - Vol. 8)

A Community under Siege

A Community under Siege
Author: Abraham Ascher
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804755184

This is a study of how the Jewish community of Breslau--the third largest and one of the most affluent in Germany--coped with Nazi persecution. Ascher has included the experiences of his immediate family, although the book is based mainly on archival sources, numerous personal reminiscences, as well as publications by the Jewish community in the 1930s. It is the first comprehensive study of a local Jewish community in Germany under Nazi rule. Until the very end, the Breslau Jews maintained a stance of defiance and sought to persevere as a cohesive group with its own institutions. They categorically denied the Nazi claim that they were not genuine Germans, but at the same time they also refused to abandon their Jewish heritage. They created a new school for the children evicted from public schools, established a variety of new cultural institutions, placed new emphasis on religious observance, maintained the Jewish hospital against all odds, and, perhaps most remarkably, increased the range of welfare services, which were desperately needed as more and more of their number lost their livelihood. In short, the Jews of Breslau refused to abandon either their institutions or the values that they had nurtured for decades. In the end, it was of no avail as the Nazis used their overwhelming power to liquidate the community by force.

In Pursuit of German Memory

In Pursuit of German Memory
Author: Wulf Kansteiner
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2006
Genre: Collective memory
ISBN: 0821416391

Wulf Kansteiner shows that the interpretations of Germany's past proposed by historians, politicians, and television makers reflect political and generational divisions and an extraordinary concern for Germany's perception abroad.

Memory Speaks

Memory Speaks
Author: Julie Sedivy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 067498028X

From an award-winning writer and linguist, a scientific and personal meditation on the phenomenon of language loss and the possibility of renewal. As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brainÕs capacity to learnÑand forgetÑlanguages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the worldÕs less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom.

Female Administrators of the Third Reich

Female Administrators of the Third Reich
Author: Rachel Century
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137548932

This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending telegrams. Yet their backgrounds and degree of commitment to Nazi ideology differed markedly. The author explores their motivations and what they knew about the true nature of their work. These women had access to information about the administration of the Holocaust and are a relatively untapped resource. Their recollections shed light on the lives, love lives, and work of their superiors, and the tasks that contributed to the displacement, deportation and death of millions. The question of how gender intersected with Nazism, repression, atrocity and genocide forms the conceptual thread of this book.

Rescue at Los Baños

Rescue at Los Baños
Author: Bruce Henderson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062325086

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers, Unbroken, and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines—most of them American men, women and children—would not survive much longer unless rescued soon. Deeply concerned about the half-starved and ill-treated prisoners, General Douglas MacArthur assigned to the 11th Airborne Division a dangerous rescue mission deep behind enemy lines that became a deadly race against the clock. The Los Baños raid would become one of the greatest triumphs of that war or any war; hailed years later by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell: “I doubt that any airborne unit in the world will ever be able to rival the Los Baños prison raid. It is the textbook operation for all ages and all armies.” Combining personal interviews, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and archival research, Rescue at Los Baños tells the story of a remarkable group of prisoners—whose courage and fortitude helped them overcome hardship, deprivation, and cruelty—and of the young American soldiers and Filipino guerrillas who risked their lives to save them.

The Church Impotent

The Church Impotent
Author: Leon J. Podles
Publisher: Spence Publishing Company
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The current preoccupation with the role of women in the church obscures the more serious problem of the perennial absence of men. This provocative book argues that Western churches have become women's clubs, that the emasculation of Christianity is dangerous for the church and society, and that a masculine presence can and must be restored.After documenting the highly feminized state of Western Christianity, Dr. Podles identifies the masculine traits that once characterized the Christian life but are now commonly considered incompatible with it. He contends that though masculinity has been marginalized within Christianity, it cannot be expunged from human society. If detached from Christianity, it reappears as a substitute religion, with unwholesome and even horrific consequences. The church, too, is diminished by its emasculation. Dr. Podles concludes by considering how Christianity's virility might be restored.In the otherwise stale and overworked field of gender studies, The Church Impotent is the only book to confront the lopsidedly feminine cast of modern Christianity with a profound analysis of its historical and sociological roots.