Life and Love in Nazi Prague: Letters from an Occupied CityMarie Bader, Kate Ottevanger, and Jan Láníček
“I can rejoice like a child over your love and kindness and oh, how beautiful it would be if you were here with me,” wrote Marie Bader (1886–1942) from Prague to Ernst Löwy (1880–1943) in Thessaloniki on October 17, 1940. These words appeared in the first of 154 letters preserved by the latter and r...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 280-282 |
| Review of: | Life and love in Nazi Prague (London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) (Labendz, Jacob Ari)
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| Summary: | “I can rejoice like a child over your love and kindness and oh, how beautiful it would be if you were here with me,” wrote Marie Bader (1886–1942) from Prague to Ernst Löwy (1880–1943) in Thessaloniki on October 17, 1940. These words appeared in the first of 154 letters preserved by the latter and rediscovered by Bader’s granddaughter Kate Ottevanger and her son in 2008. Bader sent her final letter to Löwy, her second-cousin and would-be lover, on April 20, 1942, one day before reporting for deportation. Only two of Löwy’s missives survived. The collection, in translation, offers one-sided access to a world of words that sustained the couple as Nazism overtook and stole their lives. It forms the heart of Life and Love in Nazi Prague. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab025 |