Ingeborg Hecht (1921–2011)
Autor de Invisible Walls: A German Family Under the Nuremberg Laws
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1921-04-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2011-05-06
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Germany
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Hamburg, Germany
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Freiburg, Germany
- Ocupaciones
- writer
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Biografía breve
- Ingeborg Hecht was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. The Nazi regime persecuted her even after her parents divorced in 1933 but not with the same lethality as other Jews. Her father, a prosperous attorney, was prohibited from contact with her and in 1944 was sent to die in Auschwitz. She moved with her mother to Baden, where she survived World War II. She became the author of several nonfiction works on Nazism and the treatment of families of mixed marriages. Her own memoirs Invisible Walls: A German Family Under the Nuremberg Laws and To Remember Is to Heal shared details of her personal story, including the loss of her daughter's father, whom she could not marry, on the Russian front; and her fears of dying coupled with the guilt of surviving and faring better than most of her relatives and friends.
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- 4.0
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She writes about the problems she faced in Germany and the discrimination, being unable to get a higher education or a decent job, but also notes she was far better off than her Jewish neighbors. (Her father and his entire family perished in the war, except one uncle who had emigrated beforehand.) She also writes about her struggle after the war to get compensation for the wrongs she had suffered under Hitler's regime. According to Ingeborg, she had to provide an unreasonable amount of proof of what she'd gone through (statements, personal testimonials from people who knew her during the war, etc), the decisions made by the compensation people were arbitrary and the amounts paid out were pitiful. Her brother was in a forced-labor unit who worked under terrible conditions, and he was denied compensation, whereas some of the people he worked alongside got their claims honored.
I would recommend this book for its perspective, but I don't think it's all that special besides that. The writing is very dry, without much emotion. For another look at Nazi Germany from the point of view of a "mischling", try Heinz Kuehn's Mixed Blessings: An Almost Ordinary Life in Hitler's Germany.… (más)