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The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II
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The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II Hardcover - 2009

by Steven Karras; Foreword by Michael Berenbaum


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Even Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, struggles with the question: Why didn't the Jews fight back? And finally, in view of the circumstances--even now, who would believe what was happening?--he concludes that the question is "not why all the Jews did NOT fight, but how do many of them DID. Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the strength--spiritual and physical--to resist?" In fact, over

10,000 German Jews--34 percent of the refugee population between the ages of eighteen and forty--fought in the allied armies of World War II.

This book honors those European-born Jewish combat veterans of World War II--refugees from the Nazi regime in Germany and Austria who faced their persecutors by joining the Allied Forces in a fight against the country of their birth. These twenty-seven interviews take readers into the unique and harrowing experience of German and Austrian Jews who served as Allied soldiers in North Africa and Europe--brave men and one woman whose service restored a sense of dignity and allowed them to rise above their former victimization at the hands of Nazi oppressors. All burned with anger at the Germans who had subjected them, often as young children, to cruelty in everyday life in their hometowns, and to ridicule in the national media. As soldiers who knew the language and psychology of the enemy better than any of their comrades, they struck back with new-found pride against the rampant injustice that had annihilated their families, destroyed their prospects, and subjected many of them to the worst forms of physical abuse, both random and terrifying. In The Enemy I Knew they tell their stories, and the world is richer for their heroic acts, and for their testimony.

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  • Title The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II
  • Author Steven Karras; Foreword by Michael Berenbaum
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Zenith Press, Minneapolis
  • Date 2009-10
  • ISBN 9780760335864 / 0760335869
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.3 x 1.14 in (23.57 x 16.00 x 2.90 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Jewish
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009015510
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.530

About the author

Steven Karras is the co-director of the feature-length documentary About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II. He has taped nearly a thousand hours of video and audio oral histories and has amassed a considerable archive of unpublished personal memoirs, photographs, newspaper articles, family memorabilia, and individual war records. Steve, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a screenwriter and lives with his wife in Los Angeles.Steven Karras is the co-director of the feature-length documentary About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II. He has taped nearly a thousand hours of video and audio oral histories and has amassed a considerable archive of unpublished personal memoirs, photographs, newspaper articles, family memorabilia, and individual war records. Steve, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin--Madison, is a screenwriter and lives with his wife in Los Angeles. This is his first book.Michael Berenbaum is a Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University. He was also the Executive Producer of About Face.ÿ www.aboutfacefilm.com
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