One Family’s Shoah: Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe (Studies in European Culture and History)

"Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One Family's Shoah suggests a new way of writing cultural history"-- Publisher's website Deploying Concepts Of Interpretation, Liberation, And Survival, Esteemed Literary Critic Herbert Lindenberger Parallels The History Of The Holocaust With His Own Coming To Terms With His Family's Fate. Moving, Painful, And Uplifting, One Family's Shoah Records The Diverse Fates Experienced By Descendants Of A Once-prominent Berlin Businessman, Isaak Lindenberger - Fates That Include Deportation To Theresienstadt And Auschwitz, Execution For Participating In Anti-nazi Sabotage, A Miraculous Escape From Denmark To Sweden, And, For A Lucky Few, Emigration To Safe Countries Before World War Ii Began. Public, Family, And Personal Record Are Viewed Through The Lens Of Literary, Musical, And Art Criticism, As One Family's Shoah Suggests A New Way Of Writing Cultural History. Deceiving: Nathan Lindenberger And The Duplicities Of Theresienstadt -- Memorializing: Betty Lindenberger Levi As Representative Auschwitz Victim -- Interpreting: Whether It Was Foolish Or Heroic To Fire-bomb The Soviet Paradise -- Liberating: The Edelmann Family Exodus From Occupied Denmark -- Surviving: Those Who Made It Out In Time -- Compensating: Legally, Morally, Politically -- Repositioning: Stages Of Shoah-consciousness. Herbert Lindenberger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Deceiving: Nathan Lindenberger and the Duplicities of Theresienstadt....Pages 3-28 Memorializing: Betty Lindenberger Levi as Representative Auschwitz Victim....Pages 29-53 Interpreting: Whether It was Foolish or Heroic to Fire-Bomb the “Soviet Paradise”....Pages 55-80 Liberating: The Edelmann Family Exodus from Occupied Denmark....Pages 81-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Surviving: Those Who Made It Out in Time....Pages 107-133 Compensating: Legally, Morally, Politically....Pages 135-152 Repositioning: Stages of Shoah-Consciousness....Pages 153-180 Back Matter....Pages 181-221