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| Title: | Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted
: Surviving in Nazi Germany & Communist East Germany |
| Series: | (Life Writing Series) |
| Author: | Carolyn Gammon & Christiane Hemker |
| ISBN: | 1554580064 : 9781554580064 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos, illus & maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 166 |
| Weight: | .284 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - July 2007 |
| List Price: | 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | The Holocaust: True stories of endurance & survival |
Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in post-war East Germany, Johanna Krause (19072001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. "Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted" is her story. Born in Dresden into bitter poverty, Krause received little education and worked mostly in shops and factories. In 1933, when she came to the defence of a Jewish man being beaten by the brownshirts, Krause was jailed for "insulting the Führer". After a secret wedding in 1935, she was arrested again with her husband, Max Krause, for breaking the law that forbade marriage between a Jew and an "Aryan". In the years following, Johanna endured many atrocities -- a forced abortion while eight months pregnant and subsequent sterilisation, her incarceration in numerous prisons and concentration camps, including Ravensbrück, the notorious women’s camp near Berlin, and a death march. After the war, the Krauses took part enthusiastically in building the new socialist republic of East Germany -- until 1958, when Johanna recognised a party official as a man who had tried to rape and kill her during the war. Thinking the communist party would punish the official, Joanna found out whose side the party was on and was subjected to anti-Semitic attacks. Both she and her husband were jailed and their business and belongings confiscated. After her release she lived as a persona non grata in East Germany, having been evicted from the communist party. It was only in the 1990s, after the reunification of Germany, that Johanna saw some justice. Originally published as "Zweimal Verfolgt", the book is the result of collaboration between Johanna Krause, Carolyn Gammon, and Christiane Hemker. Translated by Carolyn Gammon, "Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted" will be of interest to scholars of auto/biography, World War II history, and the Holocaust.
My Home; After My Apprenticeship; Dancing Was My Life; Deportation and Return; Our Unusual Wedding; Imprisoned for "Defiling the Race"; Forced Labour and Sterilisation; In Prison in Dresden; In the Women's Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück; The Death March; After Liberation; The Eisenacher Hof; My Mother Died in Theresienstadt; "That Johanna Krause -- She's Dangerous"; Jail for Me, Jail for Max; The Years Grow Quieter; At the End of Life.
