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A final reckoning : a Hannover family's life and death in the Shoah

Title
A final reckoning : a Hannover family's life and death in the Shoah / Ruth Gutmann ; foreword by Kenneth Waltzer.
Author
Herskovits-Gutmann, Ruth, 1928-
Publication
  • Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2013]
  • ©2013

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Description
xxiii, 206 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, A Final Reckoning resonates with emotional intensity and insight. Ruth Gutmann's memoir, first published in Germany in 2002, recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Ruth; her twin sister, Eva; stepmother, Mania; and father, Samuel Herskovits, were interned in both Thereisenstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau between June 1943 and March 1944, where all but Gutmann and her sister perished. Ruth and Eva spent the remainder of the war in numerous other camps. Gutmann's memoir is compelling in several respects. It spans her birth and early life in Hannover, Germany; her escape to Holland on a kindertransport; her forced return to Hannover; her deportation to the concentration camps (where Ruth and Eva attracted the attention of Josef Mengele, though they were ultimately spared from his murderous studies of twin siblings); and her life postliberation. Particularly striking is Gutmann's portrait of her father, Samuel, a leader in the Jewish community of Hannover who was forced under extreme pressure to communicate and, in some cases, cooperate with Nazi officials. Gutmann uses her own memories as well as years of reflection and academic study to reevaluate his role in their community. A Final Reckoning provides not only insights into Gutmann's own experience as a child in the midst of the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also a window into the lives of those, like her father, who were forced to carry on and comply with the regime that would ultimately bring about their demise"--
  • "A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, A Final Reckoning resonates with emotional intensity and insight"--
Series Statement
Judaic studies series
Uniform Title
  • Auswanderung vorläufig nicht möglich. English
  • Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
Alternative Title
Auswanderung vorläufig nicht möglich.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
*PXS 14-114
ISBN
  • 9780817318093 (hardback)
  • 0817318097 (hardback)
  • 9780817387181 (e book)
  • 0817387188 (e book)
LCCN
2013026630
OCLC
844728468
Author
Herskovits-Gutmann, Ruth, 1928- author.
Title
A final reckoning : a Hannover family's life and death in the Shoah / Ruth Gutmann ; foreword by Kenneth Waltzer.
Publisher
Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Judaic studies series
Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
*PXS 14-114
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