Title The wolves at my shadow : the story of Ingelore Rothschild / edited by Darilyn Stahl Listort and Dennis Listort

Published Edmonton, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Our lives : diary, memoir, and letters Our lives (Edmonton, Alta.) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One; We Sail to America; I Begin; The Calm Before the Storm; Deception and Dismay; My Birthday; Dark Clouds are Everywhere; Conditions Worsen; Sand Falls Through the Hourglass; Everything Worries Me; We Say Goodbye; Part Two; On My Own; Together Again; Seven Hundred Kilometres, More Goodbyes; A Major Catastrophe; A Bad Situation Becomes Worse; The Truth is Revealed; Our Secret is Safe; Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow; A Token of Friendship; The World of Garlic; Part Three; Japan is on the Horizon The Earth MovesNature's Violent Display; The War is Coming; The Americans Strike; The Emperor Speaks; Occupation; The Time of My Life; Fate Intervenes; Another Story Begins; Epilogue; Bibliography Summary "Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A decade later, as she sails away from what has become her home in Kobe, Japan, Ingelore records her memories of life in Berlin, the long train journey through Russia, and her time in Japan during World War II. Each leg of the journey presents its own nightmare: passports are stolen, identities are uncovered, a mudslide tears through the Rothschild's home, and the atomic bombs are dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Ingelore's bright, observant nature and remarkable capacity for befriending those along her way fills her narrative with unique details about the people she meets and the places she travels to. The story of Ingelore and her prominent German Jewish family's escape is an invaluable account that contributes to Holocaust witness and memoir literature. Although she was forever marked by her traumatic past, Ingelore's survival story is a painful reminder that only European Jews with significant financial means were able to carefully orchestrate an escape from Nazi Germany."-- Provided by publisher Analysis transiberian railway young girl holocaust Japan Nazi Germany jewish Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Rothschild, Ingelore, 1924-2006 -- Diaries Rothschild, Ingelore, 1924-2006 -- Childhood and youth Jews -- Germany -- Diaries Jews -- Japan -- Diaries Jews, German -- Japan -- Diaries Jewish refugees -- Japan -- Diaries Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. Childhood and youth of a person Jewish refugees Jews Jews, German SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Personal narratives, Jewish Subject Germany Japan Genre/Form Electronic books autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Diaries History Personal narratives Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book Author Listort, Darilyn Stahl. 1949- editor. Listort, Dennis, 1946- editor. LC no. 2021302850 ISBN 9781771990639 1771990635 9781771990646 1771990643 9781771990622 1771990627

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