A Childhood Under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a "certified" JewUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2003 - 293 Seiten A bestseller in Germany, Michael Wieck's account of his childhood in Königsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during the Second World War. As the child of a Jewish mother and Gentile father, Wieck was persecuted first as a "certified Jew" by the Nazis, then as a German by the Russian occupiers, including horrific internment in the Rothenstein concentration camp. His emigration to the West in 1948 marked the end of the 408-year history of the Jewish community in Königsberg. |
Inhalt
Aunt Fanny | 15 |
School Days 2The Jewish School | 32 |
The War Begins | 46 |
My School Days Are Over | 69 |
The Chemical Factory of Gamm Son | 89 |
Winter Storms | 103 |
The Russians | 124 |
The Königsberg Cemetery | 144 |
Premonitions | 179 |
Breaking and Entering Episode 2 | 189 |
Breaking and EnteringEpisode 3 | 197 |
Gleanings | 207 |
Berlin | 216 |
Birth Pangs | 223 |
Birth Pangs 2 | 231 |
Afterword | 239 |
The Rothenstein Concentration Camp | 148 |
The Reunion | 156 |
Conflicts and Personal Fates | 162 |
Breaking and Entering Episode 1 | 173 |
Glossary | 253 |
Works Cited 293 | |