Haven from Hitler, A - A Young Woman's Escape from Nazi Germany to Wales
Haven from Hitler, A - A Young Woman's Escape from Nazi Germany to Wales
Author(s):
Heini Gruffudd
Publication Date: 07 May, 2014
Available in all formats
Publisher: The Books Council of Wales
ISBN: 9781847718891
ISBN: 9781847718891
Price: INR 620.99
Description
Table of contents
This book recounts the life of Kate Bosse-Griffiths and also her family during the Second World War, and the effects of the Nazi policy of genocide on her and her family. This is a poignant and moving story which relates the murder of her mother, the suicide of her aunt, and the family's persecution.
Description
This book recounts the life of Kate Bosse-Griffiths and also her family during the Second World War, and the effects of the Nazi policy of genocide on her and her family. This is a poignant and moving story which relates the murder of her mother, the suicide of her aunt, and the family's persecution.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Some of the family’s members
- PART 1: BACKGROUND
- ‘Are you a Jew?’
- ‘Go not to Wittenberg’
- Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2
- Martin Luther: against Pope and Jew?
- Wars and Communism
- Paul and Kaethe Bosse and their family in Wittenberg
- PART 2: THE PERSECUTION
- The family ensnared
- Eva: the army officer’s wife
- Hans Ledien escapes
- Kate as refugee
- Love in the shadow of war
- PART 3: IN THE GRASP OF WAR
- The experiences of Erika Ledien during the war
- The wealth of Rhondda
- Arresting Günther and Fritz
- Cylch Cadwgan: the Cadwgan Literary Circle
- Kurt Ledien and the White Rose
- Persecuted, imprisoned and killed
- PART 4: AFTER THE WAR
- Paul Bosse
- Dolly
- Günther
- Fritz
- Kate
- Notes