Inhalt: | "Carefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice 'Liesel' Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman's emigration from Heilbron to England. From the decision to leave her family and emigrate alone, to gaining her independence as a shop worker and surviving the Blitz, to the reunion with the brother and parents and shared grief as they learn about the fate of family members who died in the Holocaust, her story sheds new light on the Jewish experience of persecution during the Holocaust and adds nuances to current debates on emigration, memory and writing, and identity"-- 'Leisel, it's time for you to leave.' Departure -- Digression: 'Dear Liesel, there are still so many questions.' A Trip to Bombay -- 'This morning I got a letter from Jack.' A way out for Helmut -- 'Dear Liesel, Urug. is no longer an option." What happened to the parents? -- 'An alien of a most excellent type.' The war years in London -- 'Thinking of Germany.' From a broken picture book -- 'Your home.' Reconnecting -- Digression: 'Now in ruins.' The house in the Götzenturmstrasse -- 'How was the wine harvest?' Heilbronn from afar. |
