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This book brings together the
horrifying real life stories of women who woke up one day and were
not who they thought they were. The government changed and they
suddenly no longer had the right kind of blood, the right name, the
right family background, the right physical features to be
considered a member of society, city of state. These stories are
from German women who were part of a Jewish Christian "mixed
marriage" and were subsequently persecuted under the Nuremberg laws.
Hitler called them "mischling" half breeds, however they have often
been passed over in studies of the Holocaust perhaps because they
are often not considered "real Jews". But these women are still
struggling with the nightmares of the Third Reich and the Holocaust,
the loss of family in concentration camps, and with their own
identity divided between their Jewish and Christian roots. Often
their Jewish background was revealed to them only after Hitler's
laws were passed. These are the narratives of eight women who
remained in Germany, struggling to reclaim their German heritage and
their cultural and religious identity.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.........................................................vii
I. The Spirit.................................................................................1
II. The Law...............................................................................21
III. STORIES............................................................................41
1. INGEBORG HECHT.............................................................43
"The Germans and the Nazis were not synonyms for me "
2. INGRID WECKER................................................................67
"I was a wanderer between the waves, belonging to no one"
3. RUTH YOST.......................................................................103
"I was born completely poisoned"
4. RUTH WILMSCHEN..........................................................133
"In the Nazi years, I acquired an elephant skin and could handle any
kind of treatment"
5. URSULA RANDT...............................................................169
"One had, at the time, enough possibilities to die"
6. ILSE B.................................................................................201
"I was treated differently because I looked Aryan. That helped me a
great deal"
7. GRETEL LORENZEN.........................................................229
"God took my life into his hands and I'm forever grateful for that"
8. SIGRID LORENZEN...........................................................243
"The Hitler ideology was stronger than my life"
9.
Margot Wetzel............................................................269
"There was no part of life where you weren 't asked whether or not
you were Jewish"
10.
Ursula bosselmann................................................297
"I stood at eighteen looking into nothingness"
NOTES....................................................................................343
WORKS CONSULTED.........................................................359
INDEX......................................................................................365
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