The Strassmans
Subtitle: from Rawicz and Berlin to America, 1793 - 1993
By: by W. Paul Strassmann.
Publisher: Berghan Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845454166
Subjects: Strassman family.; Jews -- Germany -- Biography.; Jewish physicians -- Germany -- Biography.; Jewish soldiers -- Germany -- Biography.; Jews,  German -- United States -- Biography.; Germany -- Ethnic relations.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: Introduction:  a family en route; A father against orthodoxy: Heiman in Rawicz; From the revolution of 1848 to reforms in Berlin after 1863: Wolfgang and Ferdinand; Medical achievements and disappointments: Paul and his siblings; Golden years of the women's clinic and of forensic medicine, 1909/1933; Soldiers; Stage and sky: Antonie / I; A zenith in Heidelberg with a bitter end: Gisela and Max; Stalked by Nazis in the Schumannstrasse: 1933-1936; Inseparable despite emigration: Erwin and Ilse; Transatlantic tensions in New York: Antonie / II; Old trees, transplanted: Paul and Hedwig in Dahlem; Beginning again in Minnesota: Erwin and family; On to Houston, Texas: city of the future; Destination Auschwitz: Reinhold 1944; Leading a liberal resistance group: Ernst Karl Otto; Looking back.