Ebook: Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust
Author: Goldberg Rita, Jacobsthal Hilde
- Tags: HISTORY--Europe--Western, Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust survivors, Holocaust survivors--Netherlands, Jews, Jews--Netherlands--20th century, Jews--Netherlands--Social conditions--20th century, Jews--Social conditions, Military participation--Jewish, Underground movements War, World War 1939-1945--Participation Jewish, World War 1939-1945--Underground movements, Biographies, Jacobsthal Hilde, Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands -- Biography, Jews -- Netherlands -- 20th century -- Biography, Jews -
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Halban
- City: New York;Netherlands
- Language: English
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; American Prologue Mother and Daughter; Amsterdam July 1943, Dawn; Chapter 1: Berlin; Chapter 2: Berlin and Amsterdam; Chapter 3: My Mother Comes of Age; Chapter 4: Invasion, Amsterdam 1940; Chapter 5: In the Ardennes, 1943; Chapter 6: Bergen-Belsen, April 1945; Chapter 7: Displaced Persons, Bergen-Belsen; Chapter 8: Love Letters Amsterdam, Basel; Chapter 9: War Again, Israel 1948; Chapter 10: An American in Germany, 1971; Epilogue; Notes; Plates; Copyright.;Like Anne Frank, Hilde Jacobsthal was born in Germany and brought up in Amsterdam, where the two families became close. Unlike Anne Frank, she survived the war, and Otto Frank was to become godfather to Rita, her first daughter.?I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically. This book tells the story of my mother's dramatic life before, during and after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.?I wrote Motherland because I wanted to understand a story which had become a kind of family myth. My mother's life could be seen as.
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