Life between memory and hope : the survivors of the Holocaust in occupied Germany

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Label

Life between memory and hope : the survivors of the Holocaust in occupied Germany

Title remainder

the survivors of the Holocaust in occupied Germany

Statement of responsibility

Zeev W. Mankowitz

Title variation

Life between Memory & Hope

Creator

• Mankowitz, Zeev W

Author

• Mankowitz, Zeev W

Subject

• Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1945-1990
• Sheʼerit-ha-peleṭah in der Ameriḳaner zone fun Dayṭshland -- History
• Holocaust survivors -- Germany
• Jewish refugees -- Germany -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

This is the remarkable story of the 250,000 Holocaust survivors who converged on the American Zone of Occupied Germany from 1945 to 1948. They envisaged themselves as the living bridge between destruction and rebirth, the last remnants of a world destroyed and the active agents of its return to life. Much of what has been written elsewhere looks at the Surviving Remnant through the eyes of others and thus has often failed to disclose the tragic complexity of their lives together with their remarkable political and social achievements. Despite having lost everyone and everything, they got on with their lives, they married, had children and worked for a better future. They did not surrender to the deformities of suffering and managed to preserve their humanity intact. Mankowitz uses largely inaccessible archival material to give a moving and sensitive account of this neglected area in the aftermath of the Holocaust

Member of

• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online
• Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare, 12

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

943/.004924

Index

index present

LC call number

DS135.G332

LC item number

.M36 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare

Series volume

12