A Past in Hiding
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A Past in Hiding

Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany

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A Past in Hiding

Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany

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A heart-stopping survivor story and brilliant historical investigation that offers unprecedented insight into daily life in the Third Reich and the Holocaust and the powers and pitfalls of memory.At the outbreak of World War II, Marianne Strauss, the sheltered daughter of well-to-do German Jews, was an ordinary girl, concerned with studies, friends, and romance. Almost overnight she was transformed into a woman of spirit and defiance, a fighter who, when the Gestapo came for her family, seized the moment and went underground. On the run for two years, Marianne traveled across Nazi Germany without papers, aided by a remarkable resistance organization, previously unknown and unsung. Drawing on an astonishing cache of documents as well as interviews on three continents, historian Mark Roseman reconstructs Marianne's odyssey and reveals aspects of life in the Third Reich long hidden from view. As Roseman excavates the past, he also puts forward a new and sympathetic interpretation of the troubling discrepancies between fact and recollection that so often cloud survivors' accounts.A detective story, a love story, a story of great courage and survival under the harshest conditions, A Past in Hiding is also a poignant investigation into the nature of memory, authenticity, and truth.

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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781466868311
Topic
History
Subtopic
Holocaust History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Epigraph
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Childhood in a German-Jewish Family
  10. 2. Schoolgirl in the Third Reich
  11. 3. Shattered Glass, Shattered Lives
  12. 4. Blossoming in a Harsh Climate
  13. 5. The Family, the Gestapo, the Abwehr, and the Banker
  14. 6. Love Letters in the Holocaust
  15. 7. Report from Izbica
  16. 8. Deportations, Death, and the Bund
  17. 9. The Escape
  18. 10. Memories Underground: August 1943ā€“Spring 1944
  19. 11. Underground Chronicles: April 1944ā€“April 1945
  20. 12. Living amid the Ruins
  21. 13. The Fate of Marianneā€™s Family
  22. Living with a Past in Hiding
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Index
  27. About the Author
  28. Copyright