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The Righteous of the Wehrmacht. Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet, and Jew.
Simms, Norman; Malkes, Simon
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Description for The Righteous of the Wehrmacht. Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet, and Jew.
Paperback. Translator(s): Yankova, Lilyana. Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: B; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 172.
Describes the life of the author’s family in Vilnius before and during WWII and under the Nazi occupation, depicting their miraculous survival thanks to the German officer Karl Plagge. Plagge played a vital role in the survival of more than one hundred Jews, and for this is known as “the Schindler from Darmstadt.” After liberation by the Red Army, the author’s family moved first to Poland and then to France, forging their lives as refugees with gratitude and courage.
Describes the life of the author’s family in Vilnius before and during WWII and under the Nazi occupation, depicting their miraculous survival thanks to the German officer Karl Plagge. Plagge played a vital role in the survival of more than one hundred Jews, and for this is known as “the Schindler from Darmstadt.” After liberation by the Red Army, the author’s family moved first to Poland and then to France, forging their lives as refugees with gratitude and courage.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618114495
SKU
V9781618114495
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Ref
99-15
About Simms, Norman; Malkes, Simon
Norman Simms (PhD Washington University, USA) is associate professor in the Department of Humanities and English at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He is the author of Festivals of Laughter: Blood and Justice in Biblical and Classical Literature (2007), Marranos on the Moradas: Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States from 1590-1890 (2009), and Alfred ... Read more
Reviews for The Righteous of the Wehrmacht. Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet, and Jew.
“This memoir presents the reader with many interesting themes and a look into the life of one Holocaust survivor. It could be a good book to use with high school students or undergraduates in a course on the Holocaust. It is a short but interesting read that offers a complex view of interwar Jewish life, the Holocaust, postwar Europe, and ... Read more