{"product_id":"a-final-reckoning-a-hannover-familys-life-and-death-in-the-shoah-paperback-softback-9780817359935","title":"A Final Reckoning; A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817359935","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Final Reckoning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRuth Gutmann (Author), Kenneth Waltzer (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817359935\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 19 black \u0026amp; white figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Like most survivors, Ruth asks as the memoir of her wartime experience comes to an end, how she and her twin sister, Eva, were able to survive. Despite marrying and creating a family, she says she struggled with this burden the rest of her adult life.”- Kenneth Waltzer;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written in measured and dispassionate prose, Ruth Gutmann’s story of her German childhood and years in assorted Nazi concentration camps brings a compelling voice to the genre of Holocaust memoir. By quietly revealing how the Nazis slowly tore apart the fabric of her comfortable middle-class existence in the city of Hannover and by unashamedly confronting her father’s efforts as a Jewish official to save his family and his community, she demonstrates the complete inadequacy of words like ‘passivity’ or ‘collaborator’ to illuminate the complex human response to evil.”- Muriel R. Gillick, author of \u003ci\u003eOnce They Had a Country: Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ruth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a \u003ci\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/i\u003e to Holland in 1939\u003cbr\u003e .\u003cbr\u003e Gutmann’s compelling story captures many facets of the Jewish experience in Nazi Germany. She describes her early life in Hannover as the daughter of a prominent and patriotic member of the Jewish community. Her flight on the \u003ci\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vivid, firsthand account of that effort to save the children of Jewish families. Her memories of the camps include coming to the attention of Josef Mengele, who often used twins in human experiments. Gutmann writes with moving clarity and nuance about the complex feelings of survivorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Final Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e provides not only insights into Gutmann’s own experience as a child in the midst of the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also a window into the lives of those, like her father, who were forced to carry on and comply with the regime that would ultimately bring about their demise.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKenneth Waltzer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTime Line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Early Years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. The Nazi Noose Tightens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Kindertransport to Holland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Families Bloemkoper and Meijer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. We Are Back in Hannover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Theresienstadt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Birkenau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Reichenbach and Four Other Lagers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Liberation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Time to Reflect\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Then and Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: Primo Levi'\u003cbr\u003es Last Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Circular for Jewish Community Members Anticipating Deportation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574419091736,"sku":"9780817359935","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-final-reckoning-a-hannover-familys-life-and-death-in-the-shoah-paperback-softback-9780817359935","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}