Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938–1948
Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938–1948
by Gerd Korman
University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-0-299-21080-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-21084-7 | eISBN: 978-0-299-21083-0 (all) Library of Congress Classification DS135.P63K5695 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the ill-fated St. Louis; the mother left for the United States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport. One of the sons was Gerd Korman, whose memoir follows his own path—from the family’s deportation from Hamburg, through his time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the family’s reunited life in New York City. His memoir plumbs the depths of twentieth-century history to rescue the remarkable life story of one of its survivors.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Gerd Korman is professor emeritus of history at Cornell University. His books include the prize-winning Industrialization, Immigrants, and Americanizers and several works that established him as an early student of the Holocaust, such as the anthology Hunter and Hunted.
REVIEWS
“This work is a gem. In this highly original and sensitively written book, Korman’s honesty is a palpable presence throughout.”—Alan L. Berger, series editor and Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Illustrations 000
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Prologue 3
I. The Battle Grounds 000
II. Miss Cottage of Talaton 000
III. Miller Avenue of East New York 000
IV. End of the Beginning 000
Epilogue 000
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Acknowledgments 000
Notes 000
Index 000
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