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Let Him Go Ib Katznelson

Let Him Go By Ib Katznelson

Let Him Go by Ib Katznelson


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The author reconstructs the time he spent in Ravensbruck`s and Theresienstadt as a 2 year old, using testimonies, letters and historical documentation. He is the first person to analyse the Nazi raid in detail, in which he and his parents were captured.

Let Him Go Summary

Let Him Go: A Danish Child in Ravensbruck and Theresienstadt by Ib Katznelson

old, 21 Jews to the Gestapo for 600 kr. That was the headline on the front page of EkstraBladet (a Danish daily newspaper) on Monday, November 19th, 1945. The article was about two informers the police had arrested. They had informed the Gestapo that a Jewish escape to Sweden would take place in the evening of 4th October 1943 from the Chemical Factory at Amager Strandvej. Those Jews included the two-year-old Ib Katznelson and his close family. Ib became aware of the article in 2010 and began an intense search for a past which he did not consciously remember. He looked for witnesses, documents and camps. Gradually his mother opened up and talked about the struggle for their survival in Ravensbr ck's and Theresienstadt's brutal environments, about the desperation and the hope that left her. But also about the reunification with other family members in Theresienstadt and with Ib's father who survived the concentration camp Sachsenhausen. This Nazi raid captured more Danish Jews in one go than any other, bar those Jews captured in the raid on the church attic in Gilleleje. While the action in Gilleleje has been discussed and examined a number of times, Katznelson is the first to thoroughly analyse what happened at the Chemical Factory, filling an important gap in the historical record. Ib relates his, his mother's and father's stories, along with those of others in the camp by means of testimonies, letters and historical documentation.

About Ib Katznelson

Ib Katznelson was born in Copenhagen in 1941. He graduated as an economist from the University of Copenhagen in 1967 and he had a long career in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. For a period he was Financial Councellor at the Danish Delegation to the OECD in Paris and during the last six years of his career he was Danish representative at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.

Additional information

GOR010989945
9781912676088
1912676087
Let Him Go: A Danish Child in Ravensbruck and Theresienstadt by Ib Katznelson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
20190501
256
N/A
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