A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah

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A Final Reckoning Judaic Studies Series Leon J. Weinberger, Founding Editor The University of Alabama Press • Tuscaloosa A Final Reckoning A Hannover Family’s Life and Death in the Shoah Ruth GutmAnn Foreword by Kenneth Waltzer Copyright © 2013 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface: Minion and Cambria Cover photographs: Ruth three days after Liberateion, May 3, 1945; twins Eva and Ruth Herskovits in front of the Swedish sanatorium where Ruth was recovering, 1946; laboratory slips signed by Dr. Josef Mengele, dated August 30, 1944 (courtesy of Gedenkstätte Auschwitz). Cover design: Michele Myatt Quinn All photographs are courtesy of the author unless otherwise noted. ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Herskovits-Gutmann, Ruth, 1928– author [Auswanderung vorläufig nicht möglich. English] A final reckoning : a Hannover family’s life and death in the Shoah / Ruth Gutmann ; foreword by Kenneth Waltzer. pages cm. — (Judaic studies series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8173-1809-3 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-8173-8718-1 (e book) 1. Herskovits-Gutmann, Ruth, 1928– 2. Jews—Germany— Hannover—Biography. 3. Jewish children in the Holocaust— Germany—Biography. 4. Jews—Germany—History—1933–1945. 5. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945) —Personal narratives. 6. Fathers and daughters—Germany. 7. Twin sisters—Germany. 8. Hannover (Germany) —Biography. I. Title. DS134.42.H46A313 2013 940.53’180922435954—dc23 [B] 2013026630 ...