The Breslau diaries, 1933-1941
By: Willy Cohn ; edited by Norbert Conrads ; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg
Contributors: Conrads, Norbert, editor; Kronenberg, Kenneth, 1946- translator
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780804773249
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Jews; Persecutions; Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Historians; Personal narratives
Work titles: Kein Recht, nirgends
Description: "With great immediacy, the diaries of Willy Cohn, a Jew and a Social Democrat, show how the Nazi process of marginalization unfolded from 1933 on within the vibrant Jewish community of Breslau-until that community was destroyed in 1941. Cohn documents how difficult it was to understand precisely what was happening, even as people were harassed, beaten, and taken off to concentration camps. He chronicles the efforts of the community to maintain some semblance of normal life, even as many made plans to emigrate or to get their children out. Cohn and his wife Gertrud were able to get their three oldest children out of Germany before it was too late. However, burying himself in his work of chronicling the history of the Jews in Germany, his diaries, and his memoirs, Cohn missed hisown chance to escape. In late 1941, he, Gertrud, and their two young daughters were deported to Lithuania, where they were shot"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Translation of: Kein Recht, nirgends.
Table of contents: title: The seizure of power and the abolition of rights; title: Looking for work and intellectual diversion; title: The Jewish Museum; title: The Röhm Putsch; title: Lectures; title: Ernst on his way to Palestine; title: Berlin or Palestine?; title: Youth work; title: In Bad Kudowa; title: The directorship at the Jewish Gymnasium; title: Lectures and publications; title: Teaching appointment at the Jewish Theological Seminary; title: Exploratory trip to Palestine; title: Daily life; title: The annexation of Austria; title: The "big geserah" of November 9, 1938; title: Efforts to get the children out; title: Hopes for Palestine; title: Commission from Germania Judaica; title: Ruth's departure; title: Coercion and seduction by the Gestapo; title: The outbreak of the World War; title: The first deportations; title: Writing his memoirs; title: The geserah of the Baden Jews; title: Insecurity and harassment; title: Operation Barbarossa and the war against the Jews; title: Eviction; title: Final paths.