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Title Jews in Nazi Berlin : from Kristallnacht to liberation / Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 392 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Studies in German-Jewish cultural history and literature
Studies in German-Jewish cultural history and literature (Chicago, Ill.)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English, translated from German
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Subject Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Judenverfolgung
Juif -- Berlin (Allemagne) -- 20e s. (milieu) -- catalogue d'exposition.
Judar.
Förintelsen.
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Germany
Germany -- Berlin
Berlin
Tyskland -- Berlin -- historia.
Berlin <2000>
Juden.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Meyer, Beate, 1952-
Simon, Hermann, 1949-
Schütz, Chana C.
Stiftung "Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum."
LC no. 2009022517
ISBN 9780226521596
0226521591
1282445677
9781282445673
9786612445675
661244567X