The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany

Index

339 Index Note: Italic locators reference illustrations in the text. Abitur courses and graduates, 24, 85, 88, 103, 135, 140, 143, 145 academic drive. See education desire and drive admission and enrollment, 140–44; bureaucratic problems, 144; exams/ testing, 144–46, 147–49; German influence, 145–46, 211; quotas, 40–41, 123, 151, 160, 274; scarcity, 207 ages of alumni, 287n33, 325n30 ages of emigrants, 238–39, 249 ages of students: falsification, 138, 141, 143, 289n26; universities, 24–25, 95, 112, 289n25; youth factors and Holocaust, 48, 63, 66–67, 147 agricultural technologies, 231–32 aid, 79–80; agency/client relations, 87, 109; agency population surveys, 23; American Zone, postwar Germany, 2–3, 5, 109, 116, 118–19, 132, 225–31, 236, 263–66; declines, and struggles, 132, 227, 230, 235–41, 258, 264; local organization relations, 107; methods of securing, 118–22, 226–27; scholarship focus, 3, 8, 85–86, 109–10 Ainring DP camp, 94, 246–47 aliyah, 237–39, 242, 244, 248–49, 251, 253, 254, 320n67. See also Zionism and Zionist organizations Allied vs. Axis powers, refugees policy, 91–92 Alperovitch, Eduard, 105 alumni: accounts and memories: education, 4–5, 7, 19–20, 25–26, 28, 41–45, 52, 87, 94–96, 110, 112, 117, 132–33, 135, 138–40, 139–40, 161–64, 166, 220–21, 268, 280; accounts and memories: families, 31, 34–36, 37, 161, 185, 186, 193–94; accounts and memories: friends, 178–79, 220, 241, 268, 276, 277–78; accounts and memories: goals and aspirations, 31–32, 161, 163–64; accounts and memories: postwar Germany, 199–212, 213–22; accounts and memories: WWII and Holocaust, 50–75, 119–20, 178, 181–83, 184–94, 195–98, 201–2, 216–17, 245, 280–81; accounts and memories: Zionism, 36–37, 223–24, 245, 246–48, 249, 251–57, 259, 269–70; associations, 9, 12, 14, 269, 275, 325n30, 326–27n65; health issues, 287n33; networks, 14, 269, 325n30; post–graduate lives/ careers, 5, 8, 12–14, 32, 71, 161, 184, 195, 197–98, 269–70, 271, 272–75; reunions, 4, 5–6, 15–16, 186, 275–77, 277, 278, 279–81, 284n12, 323n128, 326–27n65; traits as students, 25–26, 48; trips, 15–16, 175, 276, 279–81, 287n33, 327n74 American Army. See United States Army Americanization, names, 287n1 American Joint Distribution Committee: archives, 296n12; 340 I N D E X American Joint Distribution Committee (continued ) description and aid, 80, 89, 109, 177, 226–30, 239–40, 264–66, 300–301n119; dissolution, 264; education policy and support, 81, 95, 110, 116, 121, 122, 123, 126, 128, 131–32, 140, 148, 154–55, 235, 237; Office of University Affairs, 131–32; protests, 239–40, 264–65; student employment, 225 American Zone, postwar Germany, 1, 90. See also Jewish Students’ Union in Munich; Central Committee powers, 107–8; DPs, handling and repatriation, 1, 8, 80–82, 88–89, 90, 96, 107, 146, 236, 283n3, 283n4; DPs’ destination, 2–3, 83, 85, 88, 90–91, 92, 93–94, 110, 128, 138–39; “liquidation,” post-1947, 263; military government, 106, 115–16, 242, 314n52; Russians in, 85; universities and student groups, 2–3, 14, 22–23, 75, 77–78, 80–84, 106, 116, 118–19, 128, 131–33, 137, 147, 228, 232, 236, 264–66 “anatomical” survival, 73–74, 98 anti-Semitism. See also Holocaust: changes, 20th century Europe, 279–80; DP migration into Germany, 2; overt vs. covert, 208–9, 221–22; pogroms, 71, 89–90, 206; post–WWII Europe, 89–90, 94, 104, 105, 106, 199–200, 206–8, 208–9, 212, 215–16, 270; pre–WWII Europe, 34, 35–36, 37, 38, 40–41, 42, 43–44, 45, 46, 49, 173–74, 290n52; students’ lives, postwar Germany and Poland, 10, 25, 35, 44–45, 90, 104, 105, 106, 123, 209; United States, 272–73 Arab-Israeli conflict: Arab-Israeli War (1948) and conscription, 235, 252, 253, 258, 259–61, 278, 322n120, 323n138; roots, 232, 242, 243; Yom Kippur War (1973), 272, 275 archives. See collections and archives atheism/agnosticism, 35, 70, 167 Auerbach, Philipp, 149–52, 171, 226, 237, 240, 244, 259, 266, 320n64 Aumer, Hermann, 123 Auschwitz concentration camp: experiences, descriptions, and survivors, 65–66, 68, 69–70, 73, 98, 149, 150, 184–85, 186, 210–11, 216–17, 218, 244; prisoners’ records and tattoos, 144, 186, 210, 216; revisiting, 184–85; witnesses, 59 Australia, 14, 269 Austria: DP camps, 164; DPs in Germany, 23; Jewish DPs in, 88; students in Germany, 22...