Irene Eber
Irene Eber (* 1930 in Halle / Saale, born Geminder ) is an Israeli sinologist German origin. She was professor at the Louis Frieberg Center for Asian Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is a Senior Fellow of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute. She lives and works in Jerusalem. Her father was the grocer Chaim Geminder from Mielec, her mother Helene goers from Leipzig.
From her a Bible translation is the Han Chinese. In her autobiography, "I am alone and bang" of 2004, the septuagenarian describes not only memories of Jewish life in Poland of her childhood and her rescue from the Nazi murderers also of the feelings during her visit these places in post-communist Poland.
To autobiography
Irene Eber, a Holocaust survivor, talks about her trips to Poland, to the places of childhood and the places the destruction of her family and many people. There are painful impressions today. She describes the day of the extinction of the town Mielec. Mielec was made the first " Jew-free city " in occupied Poland on March 9, 1942. 1980 back in Mielec, she sees no traces. She describes the day in the ghetto of Dębica, Podkarpackie, a passage ghetto with the function of a German concentration camp. Hall, Brünnlitz ( Brněnec ), Krakow, Prague, Regensburg, Cham ( Oberpfalz), Munich, Frankfurt and Zeilsheim are other life stages, Hall is the last before the border with Poland in an October night in 1938, the so- called pole action.
She goes explicitly address the problem of forgetting. It provides this remembering opposite. Your question: "Will not helped by the writing of individual memories to forget the lived overall context? " Will remain unanswered until further notice.
It illustrates the problem first on the basis of a Jewish parable of the two Hasidic rabbis of Israel Baal Shem and ricin. Baal Shem had to find solutions for any problems or questions put to him, gone to a certain wood beyond, where I spoke at a fire certain prayers. The next generation still knew the place and the prayers. But again, the next generation knew just the place in the forest. Rabbi Israel of ricin could tell the story of the Baal Shem only and really knew nothing of the art of Anfeuerns itself, the place and the prayers
Still remember was important, but she asks as members of their generation to future generations: What really remains to us after visiting a modern equipped Holocaust Museum?
Others
In Hall remember stumbling blocks, laid on 24 August 2009 from Cologne Gunter Demnig, the last civilian apartment her family in Germany.
Works
- I am alone and bang: A Jewish girl in Poland from 1939 to 1945. Translated from English by Reinhild Boehnke. Beck, Munich. 2007 ISBN. 3-406-55652-3. Original: The Choice - Poland, 1939-1945. , 2004. Publisher Schocken Books Inc., New York. ISBN 0-8052-4197-3 (English)