Lives Remembered, Volume 8. “Escape to Palestine/Life in Israel” (only available in German)

Volume 8 of the series Erinnerungen (“Lives Remembered”) contains 20 biographical and autobiographical texts by Jews from Austria who were subjected to persecution under the Nazi regime and who came, legally or illegally, under a variety of different circumstances and via different escape routes, to the then British Mandate of Palestine or emigrated to the newly founded State of Israel.

The publication consists of two sub-volumes with 846 pages in total, and includes a guest contribution by University Professor Helga Embacher, who covers a wide range of topics from the history of the region from the end of the 19^th century, the events leading up to the proclamation of the State of Israel and the subsequent war of independence, to the living conditions of the new arrivals and the current situation of the survivors and their families in Israel.

Other guest articles have been contributed by Martha Keil, the Scientific Director of the Institute for Jewish History of Austria and the Former Synagogue St. Pölten, who reports on the collection “Recollections”, by Albert Lichtblau, historian and emeritus university professor in the Department of History at the University of Salzburg, who writes about his correspondence with many of the authors of the life stories published in Volume 8, and by Martin Auerbach, psychiatrist, trauma expert and former director of Amcha Israel, on the topics of flight, emigration, identity and trauma.

The book also contains a comprehensive historical glossary and is illustrated with an array of historical and contemporary photos and documents, and with graphics tracing the escape and exile routes.

Table of contents Volume 8/1 (PDF)

Table of contents Volume 8/2 (PDF)

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