Table of Contents

Preface : Family History and Working with the Past
Jutta Lange-Quassowski

Chapter 1. Introduction: A Family En Route
Chapter 2. A Father against Orthodoxy: Heiman in Rawicz
Chapter 3. From the Revolution of 1848 to Reforms in Berlin after 1863: Wolfgang and Ferdinand
Chapter 4. Medical Achievements and Disappointments: Paul and his Siblings
Chapter 5. Golden Years of the Women’s Clinic and of Forensic Medicine: 1909 – 1933
Chapter 6. Soldiers
Chapter 7. Stage and Sky: Antonie – I
Chapter 8. A Zenith in Heidelberg with a bitter End: Gisela and Max
Chapter 9. Stalked by Nazis in the Schumannstrasse: 1933 – 1936
Chapter 10. Inseparable despite Emigration: Erwin and Ilse
Chapter 11. Transatlantic Tensions in New York: Antonie – II
Chapter 12. Old Trees, Transplanted: Paul and Hedwig in Dahlem
Chapter 13. Beginning again in Minnesota Erwin and Family
Chapter 14. On to Houston, Texas: City of the Future
Chapter 15. Destination Auschwitz Reinhold 1944
Chapter 16. Leading a Liberal Resistance Group: Ernst Karl Otto
Chapter 17. Looking Back

End Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Family Trees

Editorial Notes

About the Author

After earning his Ph.D. in economic history and development at the Universities of Texas, Columbia, and Maryland, W. Paul Strassmann worked overseas and taught at Michigan State University for four decades. He has published eight books and many articles on technology and urbanization in developing countries.

Reviews

"This book shows once again how significant was the contribution of the small Jewish minority to the achievements of the German bourgeoisie before the devastation of the Nazis barbarism...W.Paul Strassmann tells [his family's history] soberly, without pathos, yet with much warmth." * Berlin Tagesspiegel