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Irene : Chronicle of a Survivor by Hofstein, Irene S. , 1921- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Irene : Chronicle of a Survivor about?

A family chronicle, interspersed with personal reflections on Germany and its Jews. Hofstein was born in 1921 in Berlin to a Jewish family (Schlesinger); in July 1939 she and her mother emigrated to the USA. Her father survived the war in the Netherlands, to which he had emigrated in 1933, with his second (non-Jewish) wife. Hofstein's maternal grandmother, Jenny Pelz, died in Auschwitz in 1944. Pp. 42-108 present correspondence of Hofstein and her mother with close relatives left behind in Germany, especially her grandmother. Hofstein's recollections and her relatives' letters portray, inter alia, Jewish life in Nazi Berlin. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Who reads Irene : Chronicle of a Survivor?

Author

Hofstein, Irene S. , 1921-

Publisher

Shengold Books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780884002000

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14