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Author Becker-Kohen, Erna, 1906-1987, author.

Title The evil that surrounds us : the WWII memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen / edited and translated by Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 161 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; The Evil That Surrounds Us; Title; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; The Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen; Epilogue; AFTERWORD
Summary "In 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000 German Jews married to an "Aryan" spouse, Erna was initially exempt from the most radical anti-Jewish measures. However, even after Erna willingly converted to Catholicism, the persecution, isolation, and hatred leveled against them by the Nazi regime and their Christian neighbors intensified, and she and their son Silvan were forced to flee alone into the mountains. Through intimate and insightful diary entries, Erna tells her own compelling and horrifying story and reflects on the fortunate escapes and terrible tragedies of her friends and family. The Nazis would exact steep payment for Erna's survival: her home, her family, and ultimately her faithful husband's life. The Evil That Surrounds Us reveals both the great evil of Nazi Germany and the powerful love and courage of her husband, friends, and strangers who risked everything to protect her."--JSTOR
Notes Translated from the German
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2020)
Subject Becker-Kohen, Erna, 1906-1987.
SUBJECT Becker-Kohen, Erna, 1906-1987 fast
Subject Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Jews -- Germany -- Diaries
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Jews
SUBJECT Germany -- Biography
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Diaries
History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Spicer, Kevin P., 1965- editor, translator.
Cucchiara, Martina, editor, translator
LC no. 2017035159
ISBN 9780253029904
0253029902
9780253029577
0253029570