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.

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)

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.

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.

The Magic Years

The Magic Years
Author: Selma H. Fraiberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1501122827

A pioneering work on early childhood development that is as relevant today as when it was first published 60 years ago. To a small child, the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and perception, she discusses the problems at each stage of development and reveals the qualities—above all, the quality of understanding—that can provide the right answer at critical moments.

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.

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.

Political Ideologies

Political Ideologies
Author: Leon P. Baradat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-10-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317345568

Brief and accessible, Political Ideologies follows the evolution of political thought over 300 years. Organized chronologically, this text examines each major ideology within a political, historical, economic, and social context. Leon Baradat's skillful prose ensures that students obtain a clear understanding of how ideas are influencing the political realities of our time.