Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1999) 107-130
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Kristallnacht, 1938
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Based on ca. 200 memoirs, most of them unpublished (chiefly from the Wiener Library, London), describes the internment of German Jews in Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Dachau in the wake of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. Most of the memoirs, written immediately after emigration from Germany, reflect the difficulty of coping with these memories; often the experiences are described as though by an observer. Even more than from the extreme physical hardships, the Jews suffered from the brutality and humiliation at their reception, which was calculated to obliterate their identity as human beings and as individuals; the camp life, where they were treated "like cattle"; the reversal of all values; the unpredictability of punishment and death or, on the other hand, of release. States that this experience brought home to the victims that they must leave Germany, but did not change their previous attitude to their Jewishness.
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