The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy

The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy

by Dorit Bader Whiteman
The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy

The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy

by Dorit Bader Whiteman

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Overview

Whiteman, who escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria with her family, is now a clinical psychologist in New York. Her impassioned, riveting study of the Jews who managed to leave Germany and Austria before Hitler implemented mass executions and death camps is based partly on interviews with 190 escapees. She tells the incredible story of the Kindertransport operation, which took 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied countries to England by train and ferry. Adolf Eichmann, then an emigration official, disdainfully approved this mass exodus. We learn of the formidable barriers escapees faced in getting out, of horrid or supportive foster homes, of the trauma and pain of being forcibly uprooted. Many escapees endured years of poverty before re-establihsing themselves. Whiteman rejects Hannah Arendt's thesis that German Jews' cultural assimilation led to their political blindness in a "fool's paradise." This is a distinctive contribution to Holocaust literature.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738205793
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 08/16/2001
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 462
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile: 1010L (what's this?)

About the Author

Dorit Bader Whiteman, Ph.D., herself an excapee from Hitler, arrived with her family in New York via England in 1941. Earning a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University, she has a private practice in New York, and serves as editorial consultant for the journal Psychotherapy. She was President of the Nassau Psychological Association and until recently Director of the Department of Psychology of the Flushing Hospital Mental Health Clinic.

Table of Contents

Forewordvii
Acknowledgmentsix
Prologue1
Part IUnder Hitler
Chapter 1The Moment Our Lives Stood Still13
Chapter 2The Tightening of the Noose33
Chapter 3Getting Out: The Obstacles45
Chapter 4The Sagas of Kurt and Franz53
Chapter 5Getting In: The Neighboring Cell71
Chapter 6Leaving: Three Vignettes89
Chapter 7Kristallnacht: The Beginning of the End95
Chapter 8Getting There109
Chapter 9Three Odysseys113
Chapter 10Die Kinder127
Chapter 11They Traveled through the Night139
Chapter 12And Most of All--Smiles!157
Part IIBefore Hitler
Chapter 13The Nest177
Chapter 14A Certain Style185
Chapter 15Reality or Illusion?195
Part IIIThe Years of Resettlement
Chapter 16A Placement, Not a Home207
Chapter 17So Many Reasons221
Chapter 18Fragments of the Children's Lives237
Chapter 19A Meeting of Minds and Hearts271
Chapter 20The Long Way Home289
Chapter 21Not Yet297
Chapter 22Internment309
Chapter 23Prison, Italian-Style331
Chapter 24The Road Upward341
Chapter 25The Farmer and the Taxidermist353
Chapter 26The Energy of Youth359
Part IVThe Emotional Aftermath
Chapter 27Don't Cry, Grandma!375
Chapter 28The Assimilated Outsider389
Chapter 29I Am Glad Hitler Missed One401
Epitaph: In Memoriam415
"Make Believe,"417
The Respondents419
Questionnaire423
References431
Index435
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