The Memoir of Ilse Seger
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The Memoir of Ilse Seger

Wife, Mother, Hostage, Nazi Resister

  1. 266 pages
  2. English
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The Memoir of Ilse Seger

Wife, Mother, Hostage, Nazi Resister

About this book

Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested him and held him in "protective custody" for three months in a local prison in Dessau and then sent him to Oranienburg concentration camp for six months, until he escaped to Czechoslovakia.

In The Memoir of Ilse Seger, Ilse tells Gerhart's story, but more importantly, she tells her own story: of her early resistance to the Nazi regime as a political opponent herself; of her solidarity with the Jews during the early years of Nazi persecution; of her defiance of expectations for women at the time; of her time as a hostage alongside her daughter, Renate, in Rosslau concentration camp and how they got out with help from members of Parliament; and, lastly, of her first years living in exile in France and Switzerland as her husband went on an anti-fascist speaking tour in the US. Ilse's story is an incredible contribution to our understanding of gendered political resistance, life in early German concentration camps, and Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, by showing what everyday life was like for the wife of a political opponent in Nazi Germany.

The Memoir of Ilse Seger is a gripping narrative of adventure and intrigue about the wartime life of an ordinary, decent woman.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Becoming a Wife and Mother with Nazism on the Rise
  9. Chapter 2. The Reichstag Fire and Gerhart’s Arrest
  10. Chapter 3. Visiting Oranienburg and Resisting Nazism
  11. Chapter 4. Under House Arrest
  12. Chapter 5. A Hostage in Rosslau
  13. Chapter 6. Meeting Marvis Tate and Leaving Germany
  14. Chapter 7. Reunited with Gerhart and Living in Exile
  15. Chapter 8. Another Separation from Gerhart and Planning for America
  16. Epilogue
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. About the Authors