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The Unwelcome One. Returning Home from Auschwitz.
Hans Frankenthal
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Paperback. Summoning the vanished world of Jewish livestock dealers in rural Germany, this is a picture of what it was like to live as a Jew in a small German town before and after the Nazis came to power. Hans Frankenthal tells his story the horrors of the Holocaust survived by one man, and its aftermath. Translator(s): Broadwin, John A. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BGA; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 249.
Before the war, there had been 11 Jewish families, 50 people in all, in the small German town of Schmallenberg. But when Hans Frankenthal returned in 1945 at the age of 19, orphaned and robbed of his youth by the Nazis, he found that all the Jews of Schmallenberg had disappeared - no one who remained was interested in what had happened to them or to him. Here, Frankenthal tells his story of the horrors of the Holocaust survived by one man, and its aftermath. Summoning the vanished world of Jewish livestock dealers in rural Germany, the milieu of his ... Read more
Before the war, there had been 11 Jewish families, 50 people in all, in the small German town of Schmallenberg. But when Hans Frankenthal returned in 1945 at the age of 19, orphaned and robbed of his youth by the Nazis, he found that all the Jews of Schmallenberg had disappeared - no one who remained was interested in what had happened to them or to him. Here, Frankenthal tells his story of the horrors of the Holocaust survived by one man, and its aftermath. Summoning the vanished world of Jewish livestock dealers in rural Germany, the milieu of his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Jewish Lives S.
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810118874
SKU
V9780810118874
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About Hans Frankenthal
HANS FRANKENTHAL was born in 1926 in Schmalienberg in the Sauerland region of Germany. In 1943, his family was deported to Auschwitz, where his parents were sent at once to the gas chambers. Hans and his brother Ernst survived slave labor in the Monowitz and Mittelbau Dora concentration camps. Liberated by the Red Army in 1945, Frankenthal returned to Schmallenberg, ... Read more
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