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Title

Invisible walls : a German family under the Nuremberg laws / Ingeborg Hecht ; translated from the German by John Brownjohn ; and To remember is to heal : encounters between victims of the Nuremberg laws / Ingeborg Hecht ; translated from the German by John A. Broadwin.

Author

Hecht, Ingeborg.

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1999.

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Hecht, Ingeborg.

Description

x, 259 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• "Ingeborg Hecht's father, a prosperous Jewish attorney, was divorced from his titled German wife in 1933 - two years before the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws - and so was deprived of what these laws termed "privileged mixed matrimony." He died in Auschwitz. His two children, called "half-Jews," were stripped of their rights, prevented from earning a living, and forbidden to marry."--BOOK JACKET.
• "In this book, Hecht writes of what it was like to live under these circumstances, sharing heartbreaking details of her personal life, including the death of her daughter's father, who was killed on the Russian front; the death of her own father - who had been forbidden all contact with his family - after he was deported in 1944; and her fears of perishing coupled with the shame of faring better than most of her family and friends.
• Hecht also offers a rich description of life after the war, when the government attempted "restitution" to the survivors."--BOOK JACKET. "Invisible Walls was first published in English in 1985. This new volume adds the first English translation of part of Hecht's second book, To Remember Is to Heal, a collection of vignettes of encounters and experiences that resulted from the publication of the first."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Jewish lives

Uniform Title

• Als unsichtbare Mauern wuchsen. English
• Jewish lives.

Alternative Title

• Als unsichtbare Mauern wuchsen.
• To remember is to heal.

Subject

• Hecht, Ingeborg
• Jews > Hamburg > Biography
• Children of interfaith marriage > Hamburg > Biography
• Jews > Germany > History > 1933-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Hamburg > Personal narratives
• Holocaust survivors > Germany
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany > Influence
• Hamburg (Germany) > Ethnic relations

Note

• Previously published (1st work): 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1985.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Invisible Walls: A German Family under the Nuremberg Laws. The Families (1883-1933). Professional Worries and Domestic Upheavals (1934-1938). The "Comrades" (1934-1936). School Days (1935-1937). Outlook Uncertain (1937-1938). The "Night of Broken Glass" and the "Lambeth Walk" (1938). The First Year of the War (1939). "Racial Disgrace" and Plans to Emigrate (1940). The Long Year (1941). Harassment and Foreboding (1942). The Final Reunion (1943). The War Years (1943-1945) -- To Remember is to Heal: Encounters between Victims of the Nuremberg Laws. Grosse Hamburgerstrasse. The Trip to Hamburg - Rolling Home. "You Will Receive Many Letters of Thanks ...": Letters from My Readers and What Resulted from Them. How Others Fared. Encounters and Their Beneficial Effects. The Journey to Amsterdam: The Anne Frank Recognition Award. The "Racial Assessment" of M. B. My Wanderings through the Brandenburg March.

ISBN

0810113716 (paper)

LCCN

99011016

OCLC

• 40838608
• ocm40838608

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries