Lisa Slater (2) (1922–2015)
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Slater, Lisa Anna
- Andere Namen
- Owens, Lisa Slater (married)
- Geburtstag
- 1922-03-05
- Todestag
- 2015-05-14
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Germany
USA - Geburtsort
- Berlin, Germany
- Wohnorte
- Berlin, Germany
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA - Berufe
- medical transcriptionist
autobiographer - Kurzbiographie
- Lisa Slater was born to a middle class family in Berlin, Germany. In 1955, she emigrated to the USA, settling in Enid, Oklahoma, where she met and married Reece Clark Slater, with whom she had four children (in addition to her first child in Germany). She worked as a certified medical transcriptionist at St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid for many years. After her retirement, she volunteered at the hospital until her move to Lafayette, Louisiana in 1990 to be closer to her twin daughters. In 1972, Mrs. Owens published an unusually frank autobiography for its day called The Rape of Berlin, detailing her life and her experiences after the fall of Berlin to the Russian Army at the end of World War II. She also did extensive public speaking and gave interviews, and her experiences were also recorded in a 2014 documentary called "The Lisa Kirsch Slater Story," by filmmaker Lucy Henke. In 1996, Mrs. Owens was interviewed for the SHOAH Visual History Foundation’s oral history project produced by Stephen Spielberg.
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I don't think the book was very well-written. Slater didn't describe the personalities of any of the characters, or even name them: they're just "my sister," "my husband," "my aunt," etc. If she wanted to protect their privacy she should have just used made-up names for them. The book is just a dry recitation of the facts, with no details. For instance, she didn't say how and when and under what circumstances she met her husband, or what their courtship was like, or describe her reaction after he, too, disappeared shortly after the war. (Per the aforementioned obituary, he predeceased her, but it doesn't say that in the book and I wonder if she knew this or not at the time of writing. This is another example of the lack of detail: no information about her search for him or speculation as to what had happened to him.)
The author's animosity towards the Soviets is totally understandable: they conquered Germany, trashed Berlin, raped and pillaged and plundered, and they took her brother and her husband from her. (She claimed she didn't get raped, but only because she was heavily pregnant.) However, her statements about the Nazi atrocities are pretty hard to swallow, especially given that the book was published in 1971 and she had been living in America for fifteen years by then. She said she had nothing against Jews, and neither did anyone else she knew, and she had thought concentration camps were just secure prisons for criminals, and she had no idea that Jews were being killed, and that she was "almost certain," even now, that Hitler did not authorize the genocide.
I don't know if she was delusional, defensive or simply lying.
I don't have a whole lot else to say about this book except I don't think it has any value, on either the literary side or the historical side.… (mehr)