The Unwelcome One

Returning Home from Auschwitz

By: Hans Frankenthal, John A. Broadwin (Translator)

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Before the war, there had been eleven Jewish families, fifty people in all, in the small German town of Schmallenberg. But when Hans Frankenthal returned in 1945 at the age of nineteen, orphaned and robbed of his youth by the Nazis, he found that all the Jews of Schmallenberg had disappeared -- no one who remained was interested in what had happened to them or to him. Here, Frankenthal tells his story of the horrors of the Holocaust survived by one man, and its aftermath.

Summoning the vanished world of Jewish livestock dealers in rural Germany, the milieu of his boyhood, Frankenthal paints a clear picture of what it was like to live as a Jew in a small German town before and after the Nazis came to power. He gives a harrowing account of his family's deportation to Auschwitz and of his "life" and his brother's as slave laborers in an I.G. Farben factory near the death camp where his parents perished. When, acting on his father's last words to him, Frankenthal returns to his hometown, we get a rare firsthand look at the postwar experience of a Jewish survivor in small-town Germany. A sobering snapshot of a reckoning denied and delayed, Frankenthal's account of his own postwar trials and of his fellow citizens' reaction to the Jewish tragedy is an important reminder of how much of history resides in one person's story, and how much depends on our willingness to hear it.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Biographical Note to German Edition	p. xi

"Where Is Schmallenberg?"	p. 3
The Boycott	p. 4
Our Jewish Home	p. 6
My Childhood in Schmallenberg	p. 8
The Sports Festival	p. 11
Losing My Friends	p. 13
The First Arrests	p. 15
The Pogrom	p. 17
"I Would Never Have Believed What the Germans Are Capable Of"	p. 19
My Bar Mitzvah	p. 21
The "Jews' Houses"	p. 23
"Wheels Have to Roll to Win the War..."	p. 24
In Broad Daylight	p. 28
In Cattle Cars to the East	p. 30
The End of the Line--Auschwitz	p. 32
Monowitz	p. 34
The First Day in the Camp	p. 36
Kommando 12	p. 38
Extermination by Work	p. 39
The Evening Roll Call	p. 41
Nighttime	p. 43
Ede Besch	p. 44
The SS	p. 46
Buttonholes, Shoes, and Cement Bags	p. 48
Barracks-Room Assistants	p. 50
The Commandant's Dog	p. 52
First Contacts with the Resistance	p. 53
The Resistance	p. 55
Sabotage	p. 56
The Stonemason-Training Kommando	p. 57
The Infirmary	p. 59
Selection	p. 60
Medical Experimentation on Human Beings	p. 62
"After Us It's Their Turn!"	p. 63
The Death March	p. 64
The Cold Hell	p. 67
The Escape	p. 69
In Captivity Again	p. 71
Liberation	p. 72

The Return Trip	p. 75
Arrival in Schmallenberg	p. 75
First Encounters	p. 76
Aunt Hedwig	p. 78
Stumbling Blocks	p. 80
Denazification in Schmallenberg	p. 82
Registering with the Police	p. 84
Confrontations	p. 86
Starting a Family	p. 89
The Children of the Survivors	p. 91
Ernst	p. 93
The Knee Operation	p. 94
"Reparations"	p. 95
A Very Ordinary Citizen of Schmallenberg	p. 97
The Trial in Frankfurt	p. 99
A Letter from Poland	p. 101
The Children Grow Up	p. 101
How It All Started Over Again	p. 104
The Memorial Stone	p. 106
The Long Silence of Amtsinspektor Holthaus	p. 107
The Brochure	p. 111
Moving to Dortmund	p. 113
An Unexpected Reunion	p. 116
Visiting Auschwitz	p. 118
The Trial in Siegen	p. 120
Another Attempt at a Memorial	p. 121
The Lahrmann Company	p. 122
1995: Fifty Years after My Liberation	p. 123
Afterword	p. 127
Translator's Notes	p. 139
Glossary	p. 147
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