The Last Veit Simons from Berlin

Holocaust, Gender, and the End of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie

Anna Hájková, Maria von der Heydt (Autoren)

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140 Seiten

2019
Hentrich und Hentrich Verlag Berlin
978-3-95565-316-3 (ISBN)

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In 1914 the Veit Simons family was one of the oldest and best known Jewish families in Berlin. Their diligence and enthusiasm for education had garnered them wealth and social recognition; the Holocaust should rob them off both. Drawing on the biographies of the last bourgeois Veit Simon, his Gentile wife, and their six children, the authors show how the Nazi genocide destroyed any prospects for the future, the social environment, livelihoods, and eventually bare existence. Some family members emigrated, stepping into an uncertain and deprived future. Of those who were not able to flee, the Gentile mother and one daughter were the only ones who survived. The story of the surviving daughter Etta in particular, who was able to assert herself in Theresienstadt ghetto even under the most adverse of circumstances, sheds new light on gender and the genocide.

is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.

is a partner in the law firm Heinichen & Laudien in Berlin. She conducts research about German “Geltungsjuden” during the Holocaust.

»The story is engagingly written, highlighting the biographies of selected family members, and draws on interesting personal primary sources in order to reconstruct the family's fate.« German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLIII, No. 1 (May 2021)

»The story is engagingly written, highlighting the biographies of selected family members, and draws on interesting personal primary sources in order to reconstruct the family’s fate.« German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLIII, No. 1 (May 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	24.06.2019
Übersetzer	Jos Porath; Justus von Widekind
Verlagsort	Leipzig
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 200 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	Anitsemitism • Berlin • concentration camps • Emigration • exile • Ghetto • History • Holocaust • Jewish • Jews • National Socialism • Persecution • Shoah • Theresienstadt
ISBN-10	3-95565-316-1 / 3955653161
ISBN-13	978-3-95565-316-3 / 9783955653163
Zustand	Neuware