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Von Geburt an galt Trevor Noah in Südafrika zur Zeit der Apartheid als Außenseiter: Als Sohn einer Schwarzen Mutter und eines Weißen Vaters erlebte er staatliche Diskriminierung und alltäglichen Rassismus. Zugleich stand er vor der Herausforderung, im Spannungsfeld der unterschiedlichen Ethnien, Sprachen und Kulturen seine eigene Identität zu finden. Ebenso humorvoll wie authentisch berichtet Trevor Noah vom Alltag in den Townships, dem Aufwachsen in einem Land im Umbruch und der Lehre, die ihm seine Mutter mitgab - dass jeder das Recht und die Pflicht hat, sein Leben selbst in die Hand zu nehmen. Trevor Noah, heute Moderator der Daily Show, erzählt eine Geschichte der Hoffnung - seine eigene.Themen: Africa; South Africa; Racism; Other English-speaking Countries; English-speaking World; Coming of Age; Discrimination; Family; Freedom; Individual and Society; Multicultural Society; SocietyNutzen Sie für diese Lektüre unsere passende Handreichung für den Unterricht. Filtern Sie dazu nach der Produktart „Handreichung“.

“this Book Needs To Join The Ranks Of The Classic Survivor Stories Of Wwii Such As ‘diary Of Anne Frank’ And ‘man's Search For Meaning’. It Is Truly That Amazing!” Ind'tale Magazine “this Type Of Raw, Articulate, History-based Storytelling Pays Homage To The War Children Who Bore Witness While Struggling To Survive.” Publishers Weekly (pw) Based On A True Story And Set Against The Epic Panorama Of Wwii, Surviving The Fatherland Is A Sweeping Saga Of Family, Love, And Betrayal That Illuminates An Intimate Part Of History Seldom Seen: The Children's War - A Tale Of Two Youths Whose Courage And Resilience Stands For The Forgotten Childhood Of An Entire Generation. Solingen, Germany, 1940: When Her Father Goes Off To War, Seven-year-old Lilly Is Left With An Unkind Mother Who Favors Her Brother And Chooses To Ignore The Lecherous Pedophile Next Door. A Few Blocks Away, Twelve-year-old Günter Also Loses His Father To The Draft And Quickly Takes Charge Of Supplementing His Family's Ever-dwindling Rations By Any Means Necessary. As The War Escalates And Bombs Begin To Rain, Lilly And Günter's Lives Spiral Out Of Control. Every Day Is A Fight For Survival. On A Quest For Firewood, Lilly Encounters A Dying Soldier And Steals Her Father's Last Suit To Help The Man Escape. Barely Sixteen, Günter Ignores His Draft Call And Embarks As A Fugitive On A Harrowing 47-day Ordeal--always Just One Step Away From Execution. When At Last The War Ends, Günter Grapples With His Brother's Severe Ptsd And The Fact That None Of His Classmates Survived. Welcoming Denazification, Lilly Takes A Desperate Step To Rid Herself Once And For All Of Her Disgusting Neighbor's Grip. When Lilly And Günter Meet In 1949, Their Love Affair Is Like Any Other. Or So It Seems. But Old Wounds And Secrets Have A Way Of Rising To The Surface Once More.

German Jewish judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903–1968) played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and the initiation of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Author Ronen Steinke tells this remarkable story while sensitively exploring the many contributions Bauer made to the postwar German justice system. As it sheds light on Bauer's Jewish identity and the role it played in these trials and his later career, Steinke's deft narrative contributes to the larger story of Jewishness in postwar Germany. Examining latent antisemitism during this period as well as Jewish responses to renewed German cultural identity and politics, Steinke also explores Bauer's personal and family life and private struggles, including his participation in debates against the criminalization of homosexuality―a fact that only came to light after his death in 1968. This new biography reveals how one individual's determination, religion, and dedication to the rule of law formed an important foundation for German post war society.

Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele and subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival. Through this book, readers will learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and her lectures, she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust, providing a message of hope for people who have suffered, and working toward goals of forgiveness, peace, and the elimination of hatred and prejudice in the world.

As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old postcard-size photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room. Only later did he learn that the women were his father’s mother and sisters, photographed in Berlin in 1937, before they were killed in the Holocaust. Steven’s father, who had fled Nazi Germany before it was too late, never spoke about the fate of his family who remained there.Steven became obsessed with finding out what happened to the women, but had little to go on. In time he stumbled on official facts in museums in Washington DC and Berlin, and later he discovered over a hundred letters sent to his father and uncle from the family in Berlin between 1936 and 1943. The women who before had been unnamed faces in a photograph could now tell their story to future generations.Letters of Stone tracks Steven’s journey of discovery about the lives and fates of the Robinski family. It is also a book about geographical journeys: to the Karoo town of Williston, where his father’s uncle settled in the late nineteenth century and became mayor; to Berlin, where Steven laid ‘stumbling stones’ (Stolpersteine) in commemoration of his relatives; to Auschwitz, where his father’s siblings perished. Most of all, this book is a poignant reconstruction of a family trapped in an increasingly terrifying and deadly Nazi state, and of the immense pressure on Steven’s father in faraway South Africa, which forced him to retreat into silence.

Shortly after her 13th birthday, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding. It was World War II and the German Nazis were rounding up Jewish people and killing them or sending them to work in horrible camps. During her time in hiding, Anne wrote about the experience in her diary. What was the fate of Anne and her family? What became of her diary? Find the answers to these questions and more in Anne Get to Know the Girl Beyond Her Diary.

Filip Müller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and disappear; by sheer luck he survived. Müller is neither a historian nor a psychologist; he is a source—one of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it. Eyewitness Auschwitz is one of the key documents of the Holocaust.

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis’s own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. She found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. It seems as if we are never far from Miep’s thoughts...Yours, Anne. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary—Anne’​s legacy—in Otto Frank’s hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty.

This is the powerful and moving story of the remarkable Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism, gained fame as a great philosopher in Germany, became a Carmelite nun, and was put to death in a Nazi concentration camp. Recently beatified by Pope John Paul II, Edith Stein was a courageous, intelligent and holy woman who speaks powerfully to us even today.

The agonizing correspondence between Jewish family members ensnared in the Nazi grip and their American relativesJust a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind. Soon an unending stream of desperate requests from German relatives made their way to Arnold’s desk.Luzie Hatch had faithfully preserved her letters both to and from far-flung relatives during the World War II era as well as copies of letters written on their behalf. This extraordinary collection, now housed at the American Jewish Committee Archives, serves as the framework for Exit Berlin. Charlotte R. Bonelli offers a vantage point rich with historical context, from biographical information about the correspondents to background on U.S. immigration laws, conditions at the Vichy internment camps, refuge in Shanghai, and many other topics, thus transforming the letters into a riveting narrative.Arnold’s letters reveal an unfamiliar side of Holocaust history. His are the responses of an “average” American Jew, struggling to keep his own business afloat while also assisting dozens of relatives trapped abroad—most of whom he had never met and whose deathly situation he could not fully comprehend. This book contributes importantly to historical understanding while also uncovering the dramatic story of one besieged family confronting unimaginable evil.