Born Jewish: A Childhood in Occupied Europe

By: Marcel Liebman, Liz Heron (Translator)

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Paperback | 7 January 2020

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This fierce memoir is both an elegy and an indictment.

Marcel Liebman's account of his childhood in Brussels under the Nazi occupation explores the emergence of his class consciousness against a background of resistance and collaboration.

He documents the internal class war that has long been hidden from history: how the Nazi persecution exploited class distinctions within the Jewish community, and how certain Jewish notables collaborated in a systematic programme of denunciation and deportation against immigrant Jews who lacked the privileges of wealth and citizenship.

About the Author

Marcel Liebman (1929–1986), a Belgian historian, is the author of Leninism Under Lenin and The Russian Revolution.

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"An engrossing and moving yet coolly dispassionate memoir. Going against the grain of Holocaust orthodoxy, Liebman depicts Jewish life under occupation in all its hues--including the craven complicity of the Jewish council--as well as the many, if still too few, acts of solidarity by Belgian workers, Communists and enlightened Catholics."--Norman Finkelstein

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