Cover; A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany: Liver Reclaimed; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; LIVES RECLAIMED; Map; Introduction: Flowers for the Heinemanns; 1. Years of Innocence; Origins of the Bund; Politics of the Personal; The Bund and Its Members; Seeing the Dangers?; 2. The Assault; Grudges and Politics; A Chill Wind in the Schoolyard; Denunciations and the Diffusion of Terror; An Existential Crisis; 3. From Vanguard to Refuge; Burning Issues; Seventeen Points; Hidden Choices; The Bund as Refuge; The Solace of Nature; Anti-NaziMovement; 4. Calls to Arms
Standing ByOvercoming Their Reserve; Motives and Barriers to Action; The Outbreak of War; The Bund and Its Children; Rock Bottom; 5. Lifelines; Gifts of the Spirit; Deportation and Dissemination; The Bund and the Onset of Mass Deportations; The Parcel Service; Forced Labor; You Must Hear It from Me Again and Again; 6. In Plain Sight; From Offering Aid to Providing Refuge; The Bund Intervenes; Lisa on the Run; The Gift of Community; Another Past in Hiding; On the Run; Between Spiritual Refuge and Emotional Turmoil; 7. The Test of Total War; The Battle of the Ruhr
Victims of Nazism, Victims of WarThe Life Raft; Fellow Victims; The War and the Lessons of History; The Bund in the Battlefield; Two Letters; 8. The Endgame; Calculated Risks: The Jacobses in a Time of Danger; Lives in the Balance; The Front Moves Closer; Besieged; Utopia on Two Wood Burners; At Risk till the BitterEnd; 9. Our Flock Has Grown Lonely; Liberation; Ready for the Future; Freedom's Frustrations; The Chance of Renewal; Creating a Public Recordof Resistanceand Rescue; Grappling with Change; Where Are the Young Peoplein the Bund?; 10. Beyond Recognition
Bund Members, Official Assistance, and CompensationInscribed on the Body; Taking Liberties; A Footnote in History; Who Werethe Righteous?; Changed Beyond Recognition?; A Spiritual Journey; Unrecognizable Pasts; Conclusion: The Rescue of History; The Bund's Achievement; Motives and Means; Resistanceand Resilience; Rescue, Help, and Self-Help; Rescue, Experience, and Memory; Lives Reclaimed; SOURCES: Primary Sources; Public Archives; Private Collections; Printed Primary Sources; Interviews; Group Conversations; Radio Broadcasts and Online Interviews; Secondary Literature; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES
Introduction1. Years of Innocence; 2. The Assault; 3. From Vanguard to Refuge; 4. Calls to Arms; 5. Lifelines; 6. In Plain Sight; 7. The Test of Total War; 8. The Endgame; 9. Our Flock Has Grown Lonely; 10. Beyond Recognition; Conclusion: The Rescue of History; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR