Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia, Max Kaufmann, edited by Gertrude Schneider and Erhard Roy Wiehn (Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre, 2010), 296 pp., hardcover €24.00

More than fifty years after its publication in German, an English-language translation of Max Kaufmann's Churbn Lettland finally has appeared. The book is more than a near-contemporaneous account of the annihilation of Latvia's Jewish community by a careful observer who lived through the h...

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Main Author: Reichelt, Katrin (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2012
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 483-485
Review of:Churbn Lettland (Konstanz : Hartung-Gorre, 2010) (Reichelt, Katrin)
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Summary:More than fifty years after its publication in German, an English-language translation of Max Kaufmann's Churbn Lettland finally has appeared. The book is more than a near-contemporaneous account of the annihilation of Latvia's Jewish community by a careful observer who lived through the horrors of Nazi occupation. As Kaufmann acknowledged, the writing was therapeutic: “I do not want the reader to regard the following report as a memoir in the proper sense of the word, but rather as the outpourings of a heavy heart that wishes to rid itself of all these terrible experiences and to forget them.” A real strength of the book comes from the temporal proximity of the events the author experienced in Riga to his recording of them; many facts and details remained fresh and clear in his mind.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs073