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Title

The women's camp in Moringen : a memoir of imprisonment in Germany, 1936-1937 / Gabriele Herz ; translated by Hildegard Herz and Howard Hartig ; edited and with an introduction by Jane Caplan.

Author

Herz, Gabriele, 1886-

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Caplan, Jane.

Description

vii, 183 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The Nazi regime opened its first concentration camps within weeks of coming to power, but, with the exception of Dachau, the history of these early, improvised camps and their inmates is not yet widely known. Gabriele Herz's memoir, published here for the first time, is a unique record of a Jewish woman's detention in the first women's concentration camp in Moringen (housed in part of an old-established workhouse), at a time when most other inmates were Communists or Jehovah's Witnesses. This original translation of her memoir is accompanied by an extensive introduction that sets Herz's experience in the history both of political detention under the Nazi regime and of the German workhouse system."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Herz, Gabriele, 1886-
• Moringen (Concentration camp)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
• World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Jewish
• Jews > Germany > Biography
• Political prisoners > Germany > Biography
• Women internment camp inmates > Germany > Biography
• Women Nazi concentration camp inmates > Germany > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-175) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from German.

ISBN

1845450779 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005041090
• 9781845450779

OCLC

• OCM58595174
• SCSB-5232576

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries