The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy: Voices of Those Who Escaped Before the "Final Solution"

by Dorit Bader Whiteman

Book Overview

Whiteman, who escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria with her family, is now a clinical psychologist in New York. Her impassioned, riveting study of the Jews who managed to leave Germany and Austria before Hitler implemented mass executions and death camps is based partly on interviews with 190 escapees. She tells the incredible story of the Kindertransport operation, which took 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied countries to England by train...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738205796
• ISBN13: 9780738205793
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

INSPIRING, AGAINST-ALL-ODDS TALES OF TENACITY

This book is for you if you have ever wondered why more Jews didn't simply leave Austria and Germany before Hitler seized power of shortly afterwards.

A TOUR DE FORCE!

With a survivor's first-hand knowledge and a psychologist's insights, Whiteman describes the incredible experiences of escapees of Hitler's tyranny.

a review on The Uprooted

The Uprooted is story a that features other stories of 190 escapees. This was also written by an escapee herself. The stories are about the escapee's lives and how they lived during the Holocaust, in their own words. I think the book was very interesting to hear what it was like for different people and their experiences. It was surprising to see how much kinder (children) that were taken away from their to parents to hide from the Nazis and escaped. Overall this book was very good at getting a good understanding of what the Holocaust was like.

BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN SURVIVAL STORIES!

This inspiring, ground-breaking book has rapidly become a classic in the Holocaust literature. It explains how some daring, resourceful and lucky Jews slipped the Nazi noose and what the aftermath of their harrowing experiences were. It makes excellent reading for students of all ages, Holocaust survivors, lay people and historians alike. Compelling human drama at its best!