
Invisible Walls
Ingeborg Hecht(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8101-1371-8 (ISBN)
Description
Ingeborg Hecht's father, a prosperous Jewish attorney, was divorced from his titled German wife in 1933 - two years before the promulgation of the Nurmberg laws - and so was deprived of what these laws termed ""privileged mixed matrimony"". He died in Auschwitz. His two children, called ""half-Jews,"" were stripped of their rights, prevented from earning a living and forbidden to marry. Hecht writes of what it was like to live under these circumstances, sharing heartbreaking details of her personal life, including the death of her daughter's father, who was killed on the Russian front; the death of her own father - who had been forbidden all contact with his family - after he was deported in 1944; her own fears of dying, and her feelings of shame at faring better than most of her family and friends. Hecht also offers a description of life after the war, when the government attempted ""restitution"" to the survivors.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-1371-8 (9780810113718)
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