Research Catalog

Title

Queen City refuge : an oral history of Cincinnati's Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany / edited by Abraham J. Peck and Uri D. Herscher.

Publication

West Orange, NJ : Behrman House, c1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Peck, Abraham J.
• Herscher, Uri D.

Description

xxxi, 270 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Jews, German > Cincinnati > Biography
• Jewish refugees > Cincinnati > Biography
• Jews > Cincinnati > Biography
• Oral biography
• Immigrants > Cincinnati > Biography
• Cincinnati (Ohio) > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "A Seymour Rossel book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: Persecution and Refuge -- Remember, But Do Not Hate / Walter Hattenbach -- It Did Get Worse / Ann Schwarz -- Good, Kind, and Simple People / John H. Kahn -- A Special Feeling for German Jews / Ruth Tauber -- Is Your Name Valk? / John Falk -- We Were Always Fighters / Lillie Schaal -- I Am Glad for the Differences / Bernard Doctor -- People Just Didn't Believe Me / Anne Spiegel -- It Will Not Bring Our Synagogue Back / Ernst Kahn -- Each Time It Was for the Cemetery and Nothing Else / Inge Friedman -- We Had Our Adjustments to Cincinnati / Oscar Dewald -- How Hard It Is to Take the Indifference of the World / Ella Abraham -- America Has Been Very Good to Us / Paul Heiman -- A Heroic and Very Brave Deed / Ruth Koplovitz -- Never Again Turn the Other Cheek / Werner Coppel -- I Look for the Good Things in Life / Eugenia Susskind -- I Hated Baseball. I Still Hate Baseball / Inge Goldberg -- What Kept Me Going Was the Idea of Survival / Ruth Kropveld -- They Were All Uprooted / Susan Freudenthal -- I Can See the Good and the Bad / Hilda Rothschild -- We Never Forgot Their Kindness / Barbara Lahm -- It Is Something I Will Never Understand / Anni Donath -- Part II: The Second Generation -- A Child of Holocaust Survivors / Ronald Coppel -- A Little Icing on the Cake / Stuart Susskind -- Part III: The Cincinnati Jewish Communal Response -- A Community Responds / Madeline B. Hertzman -- A Boy Named Herbie / Miriam Peerless -- They Never Made It Out / Helen Bohm.

ISBN

0874414865

LCCN

^^^89006687^

OCLC

• 19555742
• SCSB-12795524

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library