Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (1998) 288-306
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
German literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Weinstock, a German Jew from Baden, wrote his memoirs immediately after his return from the concentration camps. In them he describes his internment in Dachau in November 1938-May 1939; his deportation in October 1940 to Gurs, in August 1942 to Auschwitz and to the labor camp in Jawiszowice, the death march in January 1945, and finally Buchenwald. The memoirs were published in 1948 in the French occupation zone of Germany and in 1950 in an abridged version, as "Rolf, Kopf hoch!" by the Vereinigung der Vefolgten des Naziregimes (VVN) in Berlin. This edition was recalled shortly after its appearance, because of devastating criticism, especially by Stefan Heymann, himself a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, who blamed Weinstock for his apolitical attitude and failure to mention the resistance. This criticism mirrored the growing devaluation in East Germany and the VVN of the victim status of Jews as against that of resistance fighters.
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