TY - BOOK ID - 80829398 TI - Life between memory and hope PY - 2002 SN - 9780511497100 9780521811057 9780521037563 0511497105 0511073941 9780511073946 0521811058 1107132533 128016106X 0511120192 1139147811 0511073763 0511305508 0511073844 PB - New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Holocaust survivors KW - Jewish refugees KW - Refugees, Jewish KW - Survivors, Holocaust KW - Victims KW - History KW - Migrations KW - Sheʼerit-ha-peleṭah in der Ameriḳaner zone fun Dayṭshland KW - Sheirit-Hapleita in the American Zone of Germany KW - Sche'erit Hapleta (Germany) KW - History. KW - Jews - Germany - History - 1945-1990. KW - Holocaust survivors - Germany. KW - Refugees, Jewish - Germany - History - 20th century. KW - Holocaust survivors - Germany UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80829398 AB - This is the remarkable story of the 250,000 Holocaust survivors who converged on the American Zone of Occupied Germany from 1945 to 1948. They envisaged themselves as the living bridge between destruction and rebirth, the last remnants of a world destroyed and the active agents of its return to life. Much of what has been written elsewhere looks at the Surviving Remnant through the eyes of others and thus has often failed to disclose the tragic complexity of their lives together with their remarkable political and social achievements. Despite having lost everyone and everything, they got on with their lives, they married, had children and worked for a better future. They did not surrender to the deformities of suffering and managed to preserve their humanity intact. Mankowitz uses largely inaccessible archival material to give a moving and sensitive account of this neglected area in the aftermath of the Holocaust. ER -