Escaping Nazi Germany
Subtitle: One Woman's Emigration from Heilbronn to England
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781350154124
Subjects: Asia, history
Description: "Carefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice 'Liesel' Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman's emigration from Heilbron to England. From the decision to leave her family and emigrate alone, to gaining her independence as a shop worker and surviving the Blitz, to the reunion with the brother and parents and shared grief as they learn about the fate of family members who died in the Holocaust, her story sheds new light on the Jewish experience of persecution during the Holocaust and adds nuances to current debates on emigration, memory and writing, and identity"--