The women's camp in Moringen
Subtitle: a memoir of imprisonment in Germany, 1936-1937
By: Gabriele Herz ; translated by Hildegard Herz and Howard Hartig ; edited and with an introduction by Jane Caplan.
Contributors: Caplan, Jane.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Herz, Gabriele, b. 1886; Moringen (Concentration camp); World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish; Jews -- Germany -- Biography; Political prisoners -- Germany -- Biography; Women concentration camp inmates -- Germany -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives, Jewish.; Biography.
Description: "The Nazi regime opened its first concentration camps within weeks of coming to power, but with the exception of Dachau the history of these early, improvised camps and their inmates is not yet widely known. Gabriele Herz's memoir, published for the first time, is a unique record of a Jewish woman's detention in the first women's concentration camp in Moringen (housed in part of an old-established workhouse), at a time when most other inmates were communists or Jehovah's Witnesses. This original translation of her wry and perceptive memoir is accompanied by an extensive introduction that sets Herz's experience in the history both of political detention under the Nazi regime and of the German workhouse system."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Translated from German.
Includes bibliographical references.