A Final Reckoning - A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah

About the author

Ruth Herskovits Gutmann was born in 1928 in Germany. From 1943, she and her twin sister were interned in Thereisenstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other concentration camps. She was liberated on a transport near Hamburg on May 1, 1945. After her retirement from Columbia University in 1988, she studied the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
 

Summary

A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, Ruth Herskovits Gutmann's powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Gutmann
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780817359935
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5993-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 221 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Judaic Studies; Judaic Studies Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies