For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same

Ruth Ackerman, who survived the war by working for a German family under a false name, recalled scanning newly arrived American troops for a single “Jewish face.” The only member of her family to ...
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For some Jewish women, 'passing' as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same

Travel case in hand, dressed in fashionable clothing and wearing a practiced, coquettish smile, Hela Schüpper Rufeisen sat aboard the train to Warsaw, Poland. No one on board would have suspected that ...
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For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same

Hana Green has received research funding from the Central European History Society, the Leo Baeck Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Historical Institute, the United ...