Nazi Laws and Jewish Lives: Letters from Vienna
Edith Kurzweil, "Nazi Laws and Jewish Lives: Letters from Vienna"
English | ISBN: 1412853788 | 2014 | 192 pages | EPUB | 380 KB
English | ISBN: 1412853788 | 2014 | 192 pages | EPUB | 380 KB
Although the period leading up to the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews has been well recorded, few sources convey the incremental effect of specific decrees aimed to dehumanize Jews caught in Hitler's net. To illustrate how these decrees transformed their everyday lives, Edith Kurzweil has translated and edited a collection of letters written by and exchanged between her grandmother, Malvine Fischer, and mother, Mimi Weisz. These letters convey with vivid immediacy the fears, premonitions, ghettoization, and escape attempts common among Viennese and German Jews in the years preceding the implementation of the "Final Solution."
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