Haunted Memories : Portraits of Women in the Holocaust

by Lucille Eichengreen

• ISBN13: 9781935557678
• ISBN10: 193555767X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: PublishingWorks

Summary

There have been many memoirs written about the horrors of Nazi Germany, but few have presented the plights women prisoners suffered as poignantly as Lucille Eichengreen has, in this, her third memoir. Eichengreen gives us a thorough and terrifying look at the female experience in Nazi camps. While telling the tale of her own survival, she portrays all the women she encountered during her twelve years of imprisonment. We meet the empowered female SS guards, the women prisoners forced to trade sex for food, young women fighting to keep their pregnancies hidden. With unwaveringly straightforward prose, Eichengreen exposes the heartbreaks of her close allies and the brutality of the Jews, prisoners, and women she thought she could trust.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Preface	p. 11
Hamburg Before the War	p. 16
Sala	p. 18
Irmgard Schiller	p. 27
Maria	p. 35
The Lodz Ghetto, Poland	p. 42
Mira	p. 45
Erika	p. 53
Ruda	p. 62
Fajga	p. 66
Miriam and Rebecca	p. 69
Extermination Camp Auschwitz	p. 74
Alice	p. 76
Concentration Camp Neuengamme	p. 94
Dessauer Ufer and Sasel	p. 95
Dr.Gisa	p. 96
Three Czech Women	p. 102
Women in the SS	p. 107
Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen	p. 114
Helga and Vera	p. 116
Eva: New Beginnings	p. 119
Dori Tisch: The Marriage	p. 124
Return to Hamburg, Fifty Years Later	p. 130
Anna: A432171	p. 132
For Sale (Sold)	p. 140
Epilogue	p. 145
Selected Bibliography	p. 146
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