Self-Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor

by Werner Weinberg

Overview

A description of Werner Weinberg’s life during the Nazi period in Germany and then Holland, his imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen, and his unique personal reflections on his life after the war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822982890
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	07/15/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Werner Weinberg was a professor of Hebraica at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion from 1961–1984.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Publisher’s Preface Preface Introduction by Alfred Gottschalk Prologue Survivor of the First Degree Hometown Tale of a Torah Scroll My Affair with Rheda Jüdischer Lehrer: Germany, 1936–1939 Crystal Night Hannover Happening A Delayed Kaddish Concentration Camp A Revelation in Bergen-Belsen The Shame of Bergen-Belsen The Great Novel About Bergen-Belsen An Uvechein and a Dayeinu for Bergen-Belsen Pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen Retraining for Life The Lost Transport Search for Meaning Unveiling a Synagogue Monument in Germany The Crack in the Dam Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany While There Was Still Time “I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You” Contending with Guilt Epilogue A Dutch Couple Glossary of Hebrew, German, and Yiddish Terms Index

Editorial Reviews

“Werner Weinberg’s story of his disrupted life as a Jewish teacher in small-town Germany, his deportation and amazing escape from his captors, and his critical reflections on his experience make this moving volume one of the most valuable personal accounts of the Holocaust.”
—Michael Meyer, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati

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