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The Unwelcome One - Returning Home from Auschwitz (Paperback)
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The Unwelcome One - Returning Home from Auschwitz (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Lives
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Before the war, there had been eleven Jewish families, fifty people
in all, in the small German town of Schmallenberg. But when Hans
Frankenthal returned in 1945 at the age of nineteen, orphaned and
robbed of his youth by the Nazis, he found that all the Jews of
Schmallenberg had disappeared too-and no one who remained cared to
hear what had happened to them, or to him. Here, Frankenthal tells
his story-of the horrors of the Holocaust survived by one man, but
also of its aftermath, observed by an unwelcome witness to
Schmallenberg's, and Germany's, shameful past.
Summoning the vanished world of Jewish livestock dealers in rural
Germany, the milieu of his boyhood, Frankenthal paints a clear
picture of what it was like to live as a Jew in a small German town
before and after the Nazis came to power. He gives a harrowing
account of his family's deportation to Auschwitz and of his "life"
with his brother as slave laborers in an I. G. Farben factory near
the death camp where his parents perished. When, acting on his
father's last words to him, Frankenthal returns to his hometown, we
get a rare firsthand look at the post-war experience of a Jewish
survivor in small-town Germany. A sobering snapshot of the larger
reckoning denied and delayed, Frankenthal's account of his own
post-war trials and of his fellow citizens' reaction to the Jewish
tragedy is an important reminder of how much of history resides in
one person's story, and how much depends on our willingness to hear
it.
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