After the Holocaust : rebuilding Jewish lives in postwar Germany / Michael Brenner ; translated by Barbara Harshav.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-171) and index.

I. Historical Overview -- II. Witness Accounts. 1. Ernest Landau: The First Days of Freedom. 2. Julius Spokojny: Zionist Activist in the DP Camp. 3. Arno Lustiger: Keeping the Memory Alive. 4. Norbert Wollheim: Jewish Autonomy in the British Zone. 5. Heinz Galinski: New Beginning of Jewish Life in Berlin. 6. Estrongo Nachama: The Singer of Auschwitz. 7. Nathan Peter Levinson: The Functions of a Rabbi in Postwar Germany. 8. Josef Warscher: From Buchenwald to Stuttgart. 9. Wolf Weil: A "Schindler Jew" in the Bavarian Province. 10. Arno Hamburger: Coming Home in the Uniform of the Jewish Brigade. 11. David Schuster: Restoration of a Small Jewish Community. 12. Simon Snopkowski: The Jewish Student Association. 13. Lilli Marx: Renewal of the German-Jewish Press. 14. E. G. Lowenthal: On Behalf of the Jewish Aid Organization -- III. Five Decades of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany --

IV. Interview with Ignatz Bubis, President of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, on the Situation of German Jewry (July 1994).

This landmark book is the first comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war. Gathering never-before-published eyewitness accounts from Holocaust survivors, Michael Brenner presents a remarkable history of this period. Brenner brings to life the psychological, spiritual, and material obstacles they surmounted as they rebuilt their lives in Germany.

At the heart of his narrative is a series of fifteen interviews Brenner conducted with some of the most important witnesses who played an active role in the reconstruction - including presidents of Jewish communities, rabbis, and journalists.