Holocaust Survival in Antwerp (eBook)

On Foreign Soil

Alter Kleiman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
198 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0794-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The role of Christians who collaborated with the Jewish underground to assure Jews' survival begs for greater attention. Their informal cooperation emerges as a key element in Holocaust Survival in Antwerp: On Foreign Soil, a memoir of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, translated and with an introduction by Jeffrey Kleiman. Alter Kleiman fled Polish antisemitism in 1926 and settled in Antwerp. By 1942, life under German rule became unsustainable, so he fled the city and found refuge in the Belgian region of Wallonia where the industrial city of Charleroi offered protection. There, he shared the basement apartment in a boarding house. In this memoir, Kleiman recounts how, despite his fears of betrayal, Christians not only sheltered him but helped him further by directing members of the Jewish underground to this apartment, who were then able to provide cash and food coupons.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2023
• Einführung: Jeff Kleiman
• Übersetzer: Jeff Kleiman
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Belgium • holocaust survival • Jews Hidden by Christians • Memoir
• ISBN-10: 1-6669-0794-4 / 1666907944
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6669-0794-0 / 9781666907940