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the untold stories of Jewish-Christian women in Nazi Germany

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"Divided Lives brings together the real-life stories of women who one day awoke to find they were not who they thought they were. Before the rise of Hitler these women for the most part had never thought of themselves as Jewish: their parent or spouse was fully assimilated into German culture, they were not particularly religious, and many had even been baptized.

Yet as part of his attempts to define Jewish "race," Hitler called the children of Jewish-Christian marriages Mischlinge, or half-breeds, somewhere "between man and ape." This split status, which to some degree allowed these women to fare better than those considered fully Jewish, by no means shielded them or their families from persecution under the Nuremberg Laws.

Today these women continue to struggle: with the nightmares of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, with the loss of their families in concentration camps, and with their own identities - divided between Jewish and Christian roots."--BOOK JACKET.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
372

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Subjects
Jews, Children of interfaith marriage, Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Biography, History, Jews, germany, Germany, biography
Places
Germany
Times
1933-1945
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Table of Contents

The Germans and the Nazis were not synonyms for me / Ingeborg Hecht
I was a wanderer between the waves, belonging to no one / Ingrid Wecker
I was born completely poisoned / Ruth Yost
In the Nazi years, I acquired and elephant skin and could handle any kind of treatment / Ruth Wilmschen
On had, at the time, enough possibilities to die / Ursula Randt
I was treated differently because I looked Aryan. That helped me a great deal / Isle B
God took my life into his hands and I'm forever grateful for that / Gretel Lorenzen
The Hitler ideology was stronger than my life / Sigrid Lorenzen
There was no part of if where you weren't asked whether or not you were Jewish / Margot Wetzel
I stood at eighteen looking into nothingness / Ursula Beosselmann.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-364) and index.

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Genre
Biography., Personal narratives.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/18/0922, B
Library of Congress
DS135.G5 D59 2000, DS135.G5D59 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 372 p. ;
Number of pages
372

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OL18821237M
Internet Archive
dividedlivesunto00cran
ISBN 10
0312219539
LCCN
00040518
OCLC/WorldCat
44405664
Library Thing
742021
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
852858

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