Süssen Is Now Free of Jews: World War II, the Holocaust, and Rural Judaism

by Gilya Gerda Schmidt

Book Overview

S ssen Is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from S ssen-a village in the District of G ppingen, which is located in the state of Baden W rttemberg in southern Germany. The author, Gilya Gerda Schmidt, looks at this rural region through the lens of two Jewish families-the Langs and the Ottenheimers-who settled there in the early twentieth century. As a child, she shared with the Langs the same living space...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082324329X
• ISBN13: 9780823243297
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"