The Strassmanns
Subtitle: science, politics, and migration in turbulent times, 1793-1993
By: W. Paul Strassmann.
Edition: English language ed.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781845454166
Subjects: Strassmann family.; Jews -- Germany -- Biography.; Jewish physicians -- Germany -- Biography.; Jewish soldiers -- Germany -- Biography.; Jews, German -- United States -- Biography.; Germany -- Ethnic relations.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "Originally published as W. Paul Strassmann: Die Strassmanns. Schicksale einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie über zwei Jahrhunderte"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253) .
Table of contents: value: Introduction : a family en route; value: A father against orthodoxy : Heiman in Rawicz; value: From the revolution of 1848 to reforms in Berlin after 1863 : Wolfgang and Ferdinand; value: Medical achievements and disappointments : Paul and his siblings; value: Golden years of the women's clinic and of forensic medicine : 1909-1933; value: Soldiers; value: Stage and sky : Antonie I; value: A zenith in Heidelberg with a bitter end : Gisela and Max; value: Stalked by Nazis in the Schumannstrasse : 1933-1936; value: Inseparable despite emigration : Erwin and Ilse; value: Transatlantic tensions in New York : Antonie II; value: Old trees, transplanted : Paul and Hedwig in Dahlem; value: Beginning again in Minnesota : Erwin and family; value: On to Houston, Texas : city of the future; value: Destination Auschwitz : Reinhold 1944; value: Leading a liberal resistance group : Ernst Karl Otto; value: Epilogue : looking back.