Cynthia A. Crane
Autor von Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany
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Cynthia Crane is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati
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The author did her interviews during the mid-nineties, pretty much just before it was too late. All of these women were old; the youngest were in their seventies and there were some that were in their nineties. I wouldn't be surprised if every one of them has since died. One of the interviewees had suffered from mental/emotional problems for much of her life and committed suicide after her interview.
This is a good collection, though somewhat narrow in scope: the interviewees were all at least in their teens and often fully adult during the Nazi era, and I think all of them remained in Germany after the war. It would have been interesting if men had been included in the study, and also Jewish-Christian people who moved to other countries after the war -- that is, most of them. I think there's got to be something different about the people who chose to stay.… (mehr)