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Format: XV, 446 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 0306444674

Content: While much information exists on the dramatic fate of concentration camp victims, little is available about the Jewish men, women, and children who managed to escape before Hitler implemented mass executions and the death camps. The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy is an extraordinary work featuring the stories of 190 escapees, lived through their own eyes and compellingly recollected in their own words. Dorit Bader Whiteman, a clinical psychologist and a refugee herself, depicts the experiences of these escapees: the persecution by citizens and officials; the abrupt confiscation of personal possessions; the raids and arrests; the quest to save the children; the dangers and fortuities in escape and resettlement; and the lasting emotional consequences of these experiences. By the end of the 1930s, European Jews fled to countries worldwide in search of a haven, among them England, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States

Content: One of the most moving accounts is that of the Kindertransport of 10,000 Jewish children in 1939 from Nazi-occupied countries to Great Britain in trains so crowded that the smaller children had to be placed in luggage racks above the seats. Dr. Whiteman illustrates the spectrum of foster homes, ranging from the compassionate to the injurious, in which the Kinder, separated from their parents, were placed. It is equally poignant to read of the adult refugees who struggled to resettle in a new land unable to speak the language, without appropriate skills or education, without money or contacts, and filled with uncertainty over the fate of family and friends. The author provides important psychological insights into how these experiences have left the escapees to this very day with strength and with pain

Content: The Uprooted, a landmark testament to the courage and resilience of this unstudied population, will be compelling reading for the lay person, as well as social scientists and historians, and for the survivors and their families

Language: English

Keywords: Juden ; Exil ; Geschichte 1933-1990 ; Psychologie ; Deutschland ; Judenverfolgung ; Überlebender ; Geschichte 1939-1945 ; Juden ; Flüchtling ; Geschichte 1939-1945 ; Österreich ; Flucht ; Juden ; USA ; Verarbeitung ; Psychologie ; Österreich ; Flüchtling ; Juden ; Geschichte 1938-1945 ; Deutschland ; Flüchtling ; Juden ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Österreich ; Judenverfolgung ; Überlebender ; Psychisches Trauma ; Erlebnisbericht

Author information: Whiteman, Dorit Bader 1924-

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Format: 348 S.

ISBN: 0671669567

Content: Against All Odds is a landmark book - the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. It is the story of how they learned to live and trust again. William Helmreich spent more than six years traveling the United States, listening to the personal stories of hundreds of survivors and examining more than 15,000 pages of data as well as new material from archives that have never before been available, to create this remarkable, groundbreaking work. What emerges is a picture that is sharply different from the stereotypical image of survivors as people who are chronically depressed, anxious, and fearful. Instead, we see that survivors constitute a surprisingly normal community. They have rich and varied lives, they are vital contributors to their communities, and their family and work patterns are stable. But they have forged a distinct identity for themselves as a result of what they have endured - an identity that influences how they look at life and how they behave. Helmreich writes of their experiences from their first arrival in this country: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in America - many settled in major cities in the United States, while others chose rural communities in Vineland, New Jersey, and Petaluma, California; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom they felt comfortable - most often, other survivors. But this intimate, enlightening work also explores larger questions about prevailing over hardship and adversity: how people who have gone through such experiences pick up the threads of their lives; where they obtain the strength and spirit to go on; and, finally, what lessons the rest of us can learn about overcoming tragedy.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: USA ; Judenvernichtung ; Überlebender ; Deutschland ; Judenvernichtung ; Überlebender ; Auswanderung ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Juden ; Geschichte 1945-1991

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Format: 482 S.

Edition: 4. Aufl., 27. - 30. Tsd.

ISBN: 3518366076

Series Statement: Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch 107

Language: Undetermined

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: USA ; Autoritäre Persönlichkeit ; Faschismus ; Autorität ; Vorurteil ; Massenpsychologie ; Gruppendynamik ; Sozialpsychologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Author information: Adorno, Theodor W. 1903-1969