Research Catalog

Title

The wolves at my shadow : the story of Ingelore Rothschild / Ingelore Rothschild ; edited by Darilyn Stahl Listort and Dennis Listort.

Author

Rothschild, Ingelore, 1924-2006

Publication

Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Listort, Darilyn Stahl. 1949-
• Listort, Dennis, 1946-

Description

xvii, 306 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A decade later, as she sails away from what has become her home in Kobe, Japan, Ingelore records her memories of life in Berlin, the long train journey through Russia, and her time in Japan during World War II. Each leg of the journey presents its own nightmare: passports are stolen, identities are uncovered, a mudslide tears through the Rothschild's home, and the atomic bombs are dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Ingelore's bright, observant nature and remarkable capacity for befriending those along her way fills her narrative with unique details about the people she meets and the places she travels to. The story of Ingelore and her prominent German Jewish family's escape is an invaluable account that contributes to Holocaust witness and memoir literature. Although she was forever marked by her traumatic past, Ingelore's survival story is a painful reminder that only European Jews with significant financial means were able to carefully orchestrate an escape from Nazi Germany."--

Series Statement

Our lives : diary, memoir, and letters

Uniform Title

Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters

Subject

• Rothschild, Ingelore, 1924-2006 > Diaries
• Rothschild, Ingelore, 1924-2006 > Childhood and youth
• 1939-1952
• Jewish women > Germany > Biography
• Jewish women > Japan > Biography
• Jews > Germany > Diaries
• Jews > Japan > Diaries
• Jews, German > Japan > Diaries
• Jewish refugees > Japan > Diaries
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Biography
• Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952 > Personal narratives, Jewish

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Diaries
• History
• Personal narratives – Jewish
• Autobiographies
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781771990615
• 1771990619

OCLC

• 975051597
• SCSB-11205423

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library