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9780826411976

Journey Through the Night : Jakob Littner's Holocaust Memoir

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826411976

  • ISBN10:

    0826411975

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
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Summary

In 1948 a Holocaust memoir was published in German under the title Notes from a Bunker and under the authorship of Jakob Littner. In 1991 the book was republished as Jakob Littner's Notes from a Bunker, authored by Wolfgang Koeppen, a noted postwar German novelist, who died in 1996. The dust jacket of the new edition bore the rubric "A Novel, " and in his brief preface Koeppen explained: "The man who had escaped was looking for a writer....The publisher asked me: 'Do you want to write it?' This human being who had been so abused wanted to get away. He emigrated to America. He promised me an honorarium -- two care packages each month. I ate American rations and wrote the story about the suffering of a German Jew. In doing so, it became my story."

"My story"? Critics have wondered about that. Is the book fictional at all? And if so, how much? As it turns out, Koeppen worked from a fully completed typescript written by one Jakob Littner who did indeed experience the horrific events described in the "novel" and emigrated to America, where he died in 1950. This is

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Reinhard Zachau
Preface xiv
Kurt Nathan Grubler
Editor's Note xvi
Jakob Littner and his family in Munich. Ruin of his business enterprise. Arrest and deportation on Polish border. Expulsion from Germany
3(8)
Flight to Prague and Krakow. Domiciled with Janina Korngold. Flight from Krakow toward the east
11(11)
German forces invade the Soviet Union. Restrictions on Jewish Communities
22(32)
Ghetto established in Zbaracz. Construction of secret bunkers. Installation of Judenrat and Jewish militia. Christine visits the ghetto
54(17)
Aktions against Jews carried out by Poles, Ukranians, and Germans. Drive for genocide commences
71(10)
Finding a place of safety while ghetto is liquidated. Richard goes to Krakow and soon returns to Zbaracz. Christine sends money to pay landlord for a hideout
81(14)
Severe winter causes suffering. German soldiers occupy house. Red Army recaptures Zbaracz. Soviet investigating commission opens execution pit. Return to Prague. Return to Munich
95(12)
Postscript 107(2)
Notes 109(4)
A review of events that took place in the region of Zbaracz, Lvov, and Tarnapol 113(3)
Documents and Photographs 116

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