Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Lecture and Booksigning: Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family’s Untold Story (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Rebecca Boehling, UMBC Department of History

Wednesday, September 14, 4:00 pm, 7th floor, Albin O. Kuhn Library

When UMBC Biology Professor Sue Ostrand-Rosenberg found hundreds of  WWII-era family letters in her parents’ home, she contacted History Professor Rebecca Boehling to determine what best to do with them.  The result is this new collective biography  (co-authored with Uta Larkey, Goucher College), about a German Jewish family in Nazi Germany agonizing over whether ‘to go or to stay’ while confronting ever increasing obstacles to emigration and immigration. The letters reveal the family members’ hopes and fears as they are scattered over three continents, forced to contend with wartime postal delays and the deafening silence of loved ones left behind.

Sponsors: Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Dresher Center for the Humanities