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Author Strauss, Herbert A. (Herbert Arthur)

Title In the eye of the storm : growing up Jewish in Germany, 1918-1943 : a memoir / Herbert A. Strauss
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 1999

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Description xii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. German Jewish Piety: Wurzburg, 1918-1929 -- 2. High School, Apprenticeship: Wurzburg, 1929-1936 -- 3. Youth Movement and Zionist Student Collective: Berlin, 1936-1938 -- 4. General Studies: Berlin, November 1936 to September 1, 1939 -- 5. Wissenschaft des Judentums: Berlin, September 1939-January 1942 -- 6. Abitur: Berlin, March 1942 -- 7. Forced Labor: Berlin, January 10-October 24, 1942 -- 8. Underground in Berlin, October 24, 1942-June 9, 1943 -- 9. Escape to Switzerland, June 12-13, 1943
Summary "An account of a Jewish youth's journey from conservative beginnings in a south-German town, through ever-tightening Nazi persecution, slave labor in wartime Berlin, and, finally, flight into the underground and escape to Switzerland in 1943."--BOOK JACKET. "This linking of autobiography with cultural history offers unique insights into the last agony of German Jewry - its everyday life, its concerns, its moral and practical dilemmas."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Strauss, Herbert Arthur.
Jews -- Germany -- Würzburg -- Biography.
Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin -- Personal narratives.
SUBJECT Würzburg (Germany) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80139921 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Berlin (Germany) -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114404
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
LC no. 99016618
ISBN 082321916X