Isay Rottenbergs Zigarrenfabrik: Wie ein niederländisch-jüdischer Unternehmer in Sachsen den Nazis die Stirn bot - Hardcover

Rottenberg, Hella; Rottenberg, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3801206890 ISBN 13: 9783801206895

Publisher: Dietz Verlag J.H.W. Nachf, 2024

Synopsis

Isay Rottenberg, an entrepreneur from Amsterdam, buys the German cigar works in the Saxon chub near Dresden in 1932. With machine production methods, it renovates the economically struck large company in the middle of the Third Reich. The Aryan competition is foaming. But as long as the Jude Rottenberg gives many hundreds of people work in difficult times, even die-hard Nazis fail to drive him away. With courage and perseverance, he can last until 1935. An incredible story that only came to light in 2015. A call about robbed Jewish property puts Hella and Sandra Rottenberg on the track. No one in the family had ever told anything about their grandfather's factory. The two embark on a stubborn and intense search and eventually encounter a treasure of documents in German archives that reveal how Dutch-Jewish entrepreneur Isay Rottenberg fought fearlessly to keep his company in Nazi Germany. A captivating, extraordinary family history and a new face of resistance against Nazism. »An amazing portrait of the true life of a Jewish businessman in Nazi Germany and an example of how two determined women pushed aside family myths and found out the surprising truth about the family patriarch.« Michael Ignatieff

Edition details

• Publisher: Dietz Verlag J.H.W. Nachf
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3801206890
• ISBN 13: 9783801206895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252