Hájková, Anna and von der Heydt, Maria (2019) The last Veit Simons from Berlin : Holocaust, gender, and the end of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie. Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich. ISBN 9783955653163

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Abstract

In 1914 the Veit Simons family was one of the oldest and best known Jewish families in Berlin. Their diligence and enthusiasm for education had garnered them wealth and social recognition; the Holocaust should rob them off both. Drawing on the biographies of the last bourgeois Veit Simon, his Gentile wife, and their six children, the authors show how the Nazi genocide destroyed any prospects for the future, the social environment, livelihoods, and eventually bare existence. Some family members emigrated, stepping into an uncertain and deprived future. Of those who were not able to flee, the Gentile mother and one daughter were the only ones who survived. The story of the surviving daughter Etta in particular, who was able to assert herself in Theresienstadt ghetto even under the most adverse of circumstances, sheds new light on gender and the genocide.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DD Germany
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Publisher:	Hentrich & Hentrich
Place of Publication:	Berlin
ISBN:	9783955653163
Official Date:	1 June 2019
Dates:	Date Event 1 June 2019 Published
Number of Pages:	140
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Date of first compliant deposit:	8 September 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access:	9 September 2020
Funder:	Ron Louie
Related URLs:	Other

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