Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period

by Edited by Sibylle Quack

• ISBN13: 9780521470810
• ISBN10: 0521470811
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-07-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Many refugees of the Nazi period have attracted considerable scholarly attention. Einstein, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, among others, are all famous examples. In contrast, little is known about the lives of more typical refugees, their everyday lives in exile and emigration, their daily pain, sorrow, and underlying strength. This study shows, for the first time, how refugee women during the Nazi period endured, examining their important role in the survival of their families, and the meaning of exile and emigration for their future lives and careers. Between Sorrow and Strength combines essays by noted scholars in the field with eyewitness reports from contemporaries. It reveals a great deal about the role of women in the history of Jewish, as well as non-Jewish, emigration from Europe during the Nazi era.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Jewish women in Nazi Germany before the emigration Marion Kaplan

Part I. A Global Search for Refuge: 1. Jewish women exiled in France after 1933 Rita Thalman

2. Arrival at Camp de Gurs: an eyewitness report Elizabeth Marum Lunau

3. Women é

migré

s in England Marion Berghahn

4. England: an eyewitness report Susanne Miller

5. Women é

migré

s in Palestine: an eyewitness report Rachel Cohn

6. Naturally, many things were strange, but I could adapt: women é

migré

s in the Netherlands Ursula Langkau-Alex

7. Refugee women from Czechoslovakia in Canada: an eyewitness report Wilma Iggers

8. Women in the Shanghai Jewish refugee community David Kranzler

9. Shanghai: an eyewitness report Illo Heppner

10. German-Jewish women in Brazil: autobiography as cultural history Katherine Morris

11. A year in the Brazilian interior: an eyewitness report Eleanor Alexander

Part II. Refuge in the United States: Community and Institutions: 12. Women's role in the German Jewish immigrant community Steven Lowenstein

13. Listen sensitively and act spontaneously - but skillfully: selfhelp: an eyewitness report Gabriele Schiff

14. The National Council of Jewish Women and German-Jewish immigration Linda G. Kuzmack

15. The Genossinnen and the Khaverim: Socialist women from the German-speaking lands and the American Jewish labor movement, 1939-1945 Jack Jacobs

Part III. Occupations of Women Emigré

s: 16. New women in exile: German women doctors and the emigration Atina Grossmann

17. Women é

migré

psychologists and psychoanalysis in the United States Mitchell G. Ash

18. Destination social work - é

migré

s in a women's profession Joachim Wieler

19. Chicken farming: not a dream but a nightmare: an eyewitness report Eva Neisser

20. The occupation of women é

migré

s: women lawyers in the United States Frank Mecklenburg

21. Fashioning Fortuna's whim: German-speaking women emigrant historians in the United States Catherine Epstein

22. Exile or emigration: social democratic women members of the Reichstag in the United States Christl Wickert

23. Women's voices in American exile Guy Stern and Brigitte V. Sumann

Epilogue: the first sex Peter Gay.