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

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 392 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in German-Jewish cultural history and literature
Studies in German-Jewish cultural history and literature (Chicago, Ill.)
Note Accompanies exhibition held at the Stiftung "Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum" in 2000.
Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1938 : the year of fate / Hermann Simon -- The Juni-Aktion (June operation) in Berlin / Christian Dirks -- The flight and expulsion of German Jews / Michael Schäbitz -- "Aryanized" and financially ruined : the case of the Garbáty family / Beate Meyer -- Berlin Jews : deprived of rights, impoverished, and branded / Albert Meirer -- The Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt, 1938-43 / Clemens Maier -- In spite of everything : Zionists in Berlin / Chana C. Schütz -- Forced labor / Diana Schulle -- The Rosenstrasse protest / Diana Schulle -- The deportations / Beate Meyer -- Every person has a name / Rita Meyhöfer -- The opera singer Therese Rothauser / Alexandra von Pfuhlstein -- Sad experiences in the hell of Nazi Germany : the Scheurenberg family / Christian Dirks -- Ruth Schwersenz's Poesiealbum / Karin Wieckhorst -- Snatchers : the Berlin Gestapo's Jewish informants / Christian Dirks -- How the Frankenstein family survived underground, 1943-45 / Barbara Schieb -- Banished from the fatherland : how Hans Rosenthal survived the Nazi regime / Michael Schäbitz -- The fine line between responsible action and collaboration : the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland and the Jewish community in Berlin, 1938-45 / Beate Meyer -- Oranienburger Strasse 28-31 / Diana Schulle.
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 of Jews in Nazi Berlin have assembl.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English, translated from German.
Subject Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Jews.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 1933-1945
Subject Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Berlin.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin.
Berlin (Germany) -- Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Meyer, Beate, 1952-
Simon, Hermann, 1949-
Schütz, Chana C.
Stiftung "Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum."
Other Form: Print version: Jews in Nazi Berlin. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226521572 (DLC) 2009022517 (OCoLC)317922748
ISBN 9780226521596 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions)
0226521591 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions)
9780226521572 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226521575 (cloth ; alkaline paper)