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Benz, Wolfgang; Curio, Claudia; Hammel, Andrea; Axelrod, Toby

doi:10.1353/sho.2005.0040

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“…Despite the significant impact of the Kindertransport on the children and on British culture, because the children were never on the run, hidden, or incarcerated, as they grew to adulthood, they were not encouraged to feel that they were part of Holocaust history. 12 It was not until 1989, at the first Kindertransport reunion, that the rescue became part of "collective public awareness" (Benz et al 2004).…”

Section: The Children's Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

Double Jeopardy: The Fate of Intermarriage and Justice in the Films Redemption Road and Max and Hélène

Lassner

2020

Humanities

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Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews during the Third Reich occupied a dangerously ambiguous position. Although the 1935 Nuremberg Laws declared intermarriage illegal, the Jewish wife or husband was at first exempted from anti-Semitic persecution. After Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938, their situation deteriorated dramatically. However, Nazi family law was applied inconsistently, leaving both spouses in states of uncertainty with regard to their marriages and children. This essay examines the representation of intermarriage in two films: the 2015 Italian film Max and Helene, and Redemption Road, a 2016 two-part German miniseries. With hybrid cinematic styles, narrative trajectories, and characterizations, these films dramatize the traumatic consequences of Nazi racial ideology and practices for two intermarried couples and their children. Spanning the years 1938 through the late 1940s, intermarriage in these films raises challenging questions about survival, reconciliation, and loss and the definition and achievement of legal, ethical, and emotional justice in the aftermath.

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Section: The Children's Storymentioning

confidence: 99%