We Survived: Fourteen Histories of the Hidden and Hunted in Nazi Germany explained

We Survived: Fourteen Histories of the Hidden and Hunted of Nazi Germany
Author:	Eric Boehm
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Published:	1949
Pages:	308
Oclc:	544695
Dewey:	943.086
Congress:	49011621

We Survived: Fourteen Histories of the Hidden and Hunted of Nazi Germany is a compilation of survival narratives of individuals who survived persecution by Hitler's government before and during World War II. The book has been reissued multiple times since its original release in 1949 and continues to be a cited work in the literature of the Holocaust. had been a "press control officer" with the American military government in post-war Germany.^[1] The stories are mostly told by German nationals from the Berlin area.^[2]

Alfred Werner, a former prisoner of Dachau, reviewed the book for the New York Times. The book was described as an important antidote to the human "incapacity for sustained realization of horror."

The stories

• Alice Stein-Landesmann
  • Knud Christian Knudsen
  • Eric Hopp
• Moritz Mandelkern
• Lagi Countess Ballestrom-Solf
• Rolf Joseph and Alfred Joseph
• Eugen Gerstenmaier
• Günther Weisenborn
• Heinrich Liebrecht
• Jeanette Wolf
• Leo Baeck

See also

• Bibliography of Nazi Germany

Notes and References

1. News: Werner . Alfred . 1949-11-20 . In the Nazi Inferno; WE SURVIVED. The Stories of Fourteen of the Hidden and the Hunted of Nazi Germany. As told to Eric H. Boehm. 308 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press. $3.75. . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-23 . 0362-4331.
2. Web site: 1950-06-01 . We Survived: The Stories of Fourteen of the Hidden and Hunted of Germany, as told to Eric H. Boehm; and The Root and the Bough, . 2023-02-08 . Commentary Magazine . en-US.