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Shedding Our Stars Laureen Nussbaum

Shedding Our Stars par Laureen Nussbaum

Shedding Our Stars Laureen Nussbaum

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Résumé

From his post at the headquarters of the German occupation during World War II, Hans Calmeyer surreptitiously saved thousands of Jewish lives in the Netherlands. Here, Laureen Nussbaum describes how Calmeyer declared her mother non-Jewish and deleted her and her family from the deportation lists-and traces the arc of both her life and Calmeyer's in the aftermath of the war.

Shedding Our Stars Résumé

Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine Laureen Nussbaum

During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents. The Reichskommissar appointed the young lawyer Hans Calmeyer to adjudicate doubtful cases. Calmeyer used his assignment to save at least 3,700 Jews from deportation and death, dwarfing the number saved by Schindler's famous rescue operation. Laureen Nussbaum-nee Hannelore Klein-owes her life to this brave German official. In Shedding Our Stars, she tells how Calmeyer declared her mother non-Jewish and deleted her and her family from the deportation lists, saving them from death. She goes on to interweave his story with her family's tale of survival, as well as with that of her boyfriend and, later, husband, Rudi Nussbaum. Since in Amsterdam the Kleins were close to the Franks, Anne Frank and her family also figure in book. Going beyond the liberation of the Netherlands to follow both Calmeyer's and the author's story to the end of their lives, Shedding Our Stars is a story of courage in the darkest of times, and of the resilience of the human spirit.

À propos de Laureen Nussbaum

Born in 1927 in Frankfurt, Laureen Nussbaum was the middle daughter of the Klein family. When she was eight, the Kleins left Hitler's Germany and settled in Amsterdam, close to Anne Frank and her family, old friends from Frankfurt. When Hans Calmeyer, the German official in charge of dubious cases, decided in favor of their petition to be considered non-Jews, and Nussbaum's mother and sisters were allowed to shed their yellow stars, her father, living in a privileged mixed marriage, was not deported. In 1957, Nussbaum and her husband, Rudi, moved to the United States and eventually, settled in Portland, OR, where Rudi joined the faculty of Portland State University (PSU). There, Nussbaum went back to school and subsequently got her PhD in German Language and Literature at the University of Washington. She joined the faculty of PSU, published dozens of academic papers, and eventually retired as a full professor. In 2012, after her husband's death, she moved to Seattle. Karen Kirtley is a freelance editor and writer and avid music lover. She served as editorial director of Amadeus Press for several years, where she helped journalist Richard Newman put together the breathtaking biography Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz (Amadeus Press, 2000). Kirtley lives in Portland, OR.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013403099
9781631526367
1631526367
Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine Laureen Nussbaum
Laureen Nussbaum
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
She Writes Press
20191001
256
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