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Sussen Is Now Free of Jews - World War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism (Hardcover)
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Sussen Is Now Free of Jews - World War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism (Hardcover)
Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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Sussen Is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of a
few Jewish families from Sussen-a village in the District of
Goeppingen, which is located in the state of Baden Wurttemberg in
southern Germany. The author, Gilya Gerda Schmidt, looks at this
rural region through the lens of two Jewish families-the Langs and
the Ottenheimers-who settled there in the early twentieth century.
As a child, she shared with the Langs the same living space for
just a few months. She remembers her mother's telling her of the
Jews who lived in Sussen until the Holocaust. More than thirty
years later, in a used bookstore in Knoxville, Tennessee, the
author accidentally found documentation verifying the Jewish
presence in a book about the surviving Jews of Wurttemberg. In it,
she found confirmation that there had been Jews living in Sussen
until the Holocaust. For the first time, she had the proof she
needed to look into the reality behind this lingering mystery. Here
began her detective-like journey to find out what happened to the
Jews of Sussen. A decade of research into local and regional
archives ensued, and this very penetrating study is the result. In
it, the author attempts to shed light on not just the original
question of what happened to the two families during the Holocaust
but also on a host of other questions: What was it like to be
Jewish in rural southern Germany a century ago? What were the
Jewish traditions of this region? What were the relations between
Jews and Christians before the Holocaust? And where did those
family members who were able to escape or who survived the
concentration camps go when they left Sussen or Goeppingen? Few
witnesses came forward, yet the documents in the archives spoke
volumes. This micro-history records the not-so-romantic journey of
two Jewish families who lived in the Fils Valley. The study also
addresses issues of being an American prisoner of war; of resuming
life after the Holocaust; of the bureaucratic nightmare of
requisitions, restitution, and reparations; and of life in America.
This unique book will be of interest to a general readership and is
an important book for scholars in German and Holocaust studies.
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