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Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror
A dozen Purdue University Jewish faculty members—ten men and two women—who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their stories in a series of interviews conducted by Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt, a history professor at Purdue and the author of The Burden of Victory: France, Britain and the Enforcement of the Versailles Peace, 1919-1925 (1995). Some of the refugees were unable to escape and survived through hiding and subterfuge or endured the camps. The interviewees, some speaking out for the first time after more than half a century, often found it difficult to recall painful experiences. They discussed the problems of growing up Jewish, especially after the enactment of anti-Jewish legislation; the importance of religion, God, and traditions in their lives; and adjusting to life in the United States, where finding employment was just one of many obstacles.
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Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror
A dozen Purdue University Jewish faculty members—ten men and two women—who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their stories in a series of interviews conducted by Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt, a history professor at Purdue and the author of The Burden of Victory: France, Britain and the Enforcement of the Versailles Peace, 1919-1925 (1995). Some of the refugees were unable to escape and survived through hiding and subterfuge or endured the camps. The interviewees, some speaking out for the first time after more than half a century, often found it difficult to recall painful experiences. They discussed the problems of growing up Jewish, especially after the enactment of anti-Jewish legislation; the importance of religion, God, and traditions in their lives; and adjusting to life in the United States, where finding employment was just one of many obstacles.
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Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror

Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror

by Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt
Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror

Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror

by Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt

Overview

A dozen Purdue University Jewish faculty members—ten men and two women—who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their stories in a series of interviews conducted by Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt, a history professor at Purdue and the author of The Burden of Victory: France, Britain and the Enforcement of the Versailles Peace, 1919-1925 (1995). Some of the refugees were unable to escape and survived through hiding and subterfuge or endured the camps. The interviewees, some speaking out for the first time after more than half a century, often found it difficult to recall painful experiences. They discussed the problems of growing up Jewish, especially after the enactment of anti-Jewish legislation; the importance of religion, God, and traditions in their lives; and adjusting to life in the United States, where finding employment was just one of many obstacles.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781557536006
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Publication date: 02/15/2011
Pages: 494
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva, where he attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies. He has written a number of books, including The Burden of Victory: France, Britain and the Enforcement of the Versailles Peace, 1919-1925 and Europe since 1945: From Conflict to Community. He was also a chevalier in the Order of the Palmes AcadAmiques.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Germany

1 The Manner of Belonging 17

2 The Process of Exile 55

3 A European War Becomes a World War 111

4 Reestablishing Roots 156

Part 2 Austria

5 Imperial Twilight 213

6 The Anscbluss 242

7 A Determination to Succeed 284

Part 3 Czechoslovakia and Poland and Hungary

8 The Exploitation of Weakness 307

9 Within Hitler's Empire 336

10 A Time for Renewal 383

Part 4 The United States

11 A Sense of Service 429

12 Two Kinds of Time 446

Epilogue 469

Selected Bibliography 473

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