A final reckoning : a Hannover family's life and death in the Shoah / Ruth Gutmann ; foreword by Kenneth Waltzer.

"A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, A Final Reckoning resonates with emotional intensity and insight. Ruth Gutmann's memoir, first published in Germany in 2002, recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, bu...

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Main Author: Herskovits-Gutmann, Ruth, 1928- (Author)
Other title:Auswanderung vorläufig nicht möglich. English
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2013]
Series:Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
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