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The Strassmanns : science, politics, and migration in turbulent times, 1793-1993
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- Creator
- W. Paul Strassmann
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- English language edition
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xv, 262 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781845454166, 1845454162
- OCLC
- ocn145396526
- "Originally published as W. Paul Strassmann: Die Strassmanns. Schicksale einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie über zwei Jahrhunderte"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.
- Introduction : a family en route -- A father against orthodoxy : Heiman in Rawicz -- From the revolution of 1848 to reforms in Berlin after 1863 : Wolfgang and Ferdinand -- Medical achievements and disappointments : Paul and his siblings -- Golden years of the women's clinic and of forensic medicine : 1909-1933 -- Soldiers -- Stage and sky : Antonie I -- A zenith in Heidelberg with a bitter end : Gisela and Max -- Stalked by Nazis in the Schumannstrasse : 1933-1936 -- Inseparable despite emigration : Erwin and Ilse -- Transatlantic tensions in New York : Antonie II -- Old trees, transplanted : Paul and Hedwig in Dahlem -- Beginning again in Minnesota : Erwin and family -- On to Houston, Texas : city of the future -- Destination Auschwitz : Reinhold 1944 -- Leading a liberal resistance group : Ernst Karl Otto -- Epilogue : looking back