Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,3 (1996) 252-266
Keywords:
Klemperer, Victor,
;
Cohn, Willy,
;
Koch, Richard,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
A version of this article was presented as the Meyerhoff annual lecture at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in June 1996. Describes three accounts written by German Jews during the Nazi period - the diary of Klemperer, who survived in Germany because of his Aryan wife; the diary of Cohn, who was deported to Kovno in 1941 where he and his family were killed; and the autobiography and letters of Koch, who emigrated to the USSR with his family in 1937. (Only Klemperer's diary has been published, in 1995.) Contends that accounts like these may provide a better insight into Nazi policy toward Jews, and Jewish life under the shadow of Nazism, than many research studies.
Note:
Appeared also in his collected articles "Harvest of a Decade" (2011) 231-246.
DOI:
10.1093/hgs/10.3.252
URL:
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