These Hard Times

"Änne Gröschler (1888-1982) from the small town of Jever in northern Germany escaped the Holocaust with the so-called "Transport 222" in 1944, when 222 "exchange Jews" from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were taken to the Mandate Palestine. Despite all the humiliations and losses, this impressive woman drew a nuanced picture of the National Socialist era immediately after her rescue, leaving us a unique document"--