Our Only Hope

Eddie's Holocaust Story and the Weisz Family Correspondence

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Our Only Hope

Eddie's Holocaust Story and the Weisz Family Correspondence

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Our Only Hope is based on correspondence between Eddie Weisz, a German Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, and his family (father, mother, and brother) who remained behind, first in Berlin and then Prague. Like many German Jewish families, Eddie's parents sent their eldest child to America hoping that he could pave the way for the rest of the family to follow. The story is a deeply personal account of how the Nazi phenomenon affected a single family. It gives voice to victims of the Holocaust, people whose experiences are typically told through the eyes of survivors and perpetrators. Through this narrative, Our Only Hope illuminates an ironic and tragic dualism: the steady deterioration of life's circumstances for the Weisz family that is left behind, countered by the transformation of Eddie Weisz into an independent adult and American citizen.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Leaving Home
Chapter 4 From Berlin to Prague
Chapter 5 The First Prague Fall, October-December 1938
Chapter 6 Life in Prague
Chapter 7 The Return of the Jackal
Chapter 8 War in Europe
Chapter 9 1941
Chapter 10 The Search for Eddie's Family
Part 11 Epilogue

Product details

Published Feb 27 2008
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 112
ISBN 9780761839200
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 230 x 154 mm
Series Studies in the Shoah Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Zev Garber

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