To be a Jew in Berlin: The Letters of Hermann Samter, 1939-1943

Edited by Daniel Fraenkel

NIS 91.00

What was it like to be a Jew in Nazi-dominated Berlin, to have no freedom of movement, to be forced to wear a Yellow Star and watch friends be transported or commit suicide? The group of 19 letters left behind by journalist Herman Samter, head of the classified section of Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt, the last Jewish newspaper to remain active after Krystallnacht, is a rare historical document of Jewish Berliners in the shadow of deportation and death.

 

What was it like to be a Jew in Nazi-dominated Berlin, to have no freedom of movement, to be forced to wear a Yellow Star and watch friends be transported or commit suicide? The group of 19 letters left behind by journalist Herman Samter, head of the classified section of Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt, the last Jewish newspaper to remain active after Krystallnacht, is a rare historical document of Jewish Berliners in the shadow of deportation and death.

 

מפרט המוצר
Year 2012
ISBN 978-965-308-412-4
Catalog No. 807
No. of Pages 128 pp.
Size 14X21 cm.
Format Soft Cover
Publisher Yad Vashem
Translator Translator: Bronagh Bowerman
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Letters Never Sent: Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen

Mirjam Bolle

 

In early 1943, Mirjam Levie, a young Jewish woman from Amsterdam, began to write letters to her fiance, Leo Bolle, who had immigrated to Eretz Israel a few years earlier. Her letters, which were never sent, were written during the deportations of the Jews from Amsterdam; during her incarceration in Westerbork, the main transit camp for Jewish deportees to the death camps in Poland; and during her imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen. As secretary in the controversial “Jewish Council of Amsterdam”, Mirjam’s letters are the only source remaining to describe events from the viewpoint of one of its members. Mirjam managed to hide the letters she wrote in Amsterdam and Westerbork; and those she wrote in Bergen-Belsen she brought with her when she was released as part of an exchange between Dutch Jews and German POWs, and arrived in Eretz Israel on 10 July 1944. The book presents a series of letters – unique in their historical interest and extremely moving in their human dimension – forming a personal diary of real time.

 

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