Description: "Carefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice 'Liesel' Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman's emigration from Heilbron to England. From the decision to leave her family and emigrate alone, to gaining her independence as a shop worker and surviving the Blitz, to the reunion with the brother and parents and shared grief as they learn about the fate of family members who died in the Holocaust, her story sheds new light on the Jewish experience of persecution during the Holocaust and adds nuances to current debates on emigration, memory and writing, and identity"--
Brief description: Joachim Schlör is Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations in History at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London, 1840 - 1930 (2016). He is the editor of the journal Jewish Culture and History, and (with Johanna Rolshoven) co-editor of the online journal Mobile Culture Studies.
Review Quotes: "[T]he English translation gives a wider audience the chance to read a book that is both academically and emotionally compelling." --German Historical Institute London Bulletin