Living in two worlds : diaries of a Jewish couple in Germany and in exile /
"The story of the Rosenfeld family is at once extraordinary and yet entirely typical of the period. It is a tale of ghettoes, deportations, of certain death and a lastminute reprieve, as well as the grinding misery of exile. Else's diary recounts her life as a Jewish woman in Germany up to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Summary: | "The story of the Rosenfeld family is at once extraordinary and yet entirely typical of the period. It is a tale of ghettoes, deportations, of certain death and a lastminute reprieve, as well as the grinding misery of exile. Else's diary recounts her life as a Jewish woman in Germany up to 1944, but this volume offers not only a selection of letters she penned during this period to Eva Schmidt, a close friend since student days and a key player in Else's survival, but also an opportunity to listen to interviews with Else herself, recorded in 1963 by the BBC, all in her own voice and words"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Translated into English from the original work, "Leben in zwei Welten" © 2011 Volk Verlag." |
| Physical Description: | xi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781316519097 1316519090 9781009001380 1009001388 |