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A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah.

A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah.

・ISBN 978-0-8173-5993-5 paper US$ 19.95

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著者・編者Gutmann, Ruth,
シリーズ (Judaic Studies Series)
出版社 (The University of Alabama Press, US)
出版年月2020
ページ数232 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A05-76393>

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A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research

Ruth Herskovits Gutmann's powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939
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Gutmann's compelling story captures many facets of the Jewish experience in Nazi Germany. She describes her early life in Hannover as the daughter of a prominent and patriotic member of the Jewish community. Her flight on the Kindertransport offers a vivid, firsthand account of that effort to save the children of Jewish families. Her memories of the camps include coming to the attention of Josef Mengele, who often used twins in human experiments. Gutmann writes with moving clarity and nuance about the complex feelings of survivorship.

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.