Friday, July 21, 2023

To Sweden - the story that was never told. Escaping the Holocaust. New expanded 3rd edition now in English by Bertil Oppenheimer

Dear reader! After some years of hard work, I have now again updated my book "To Sweden – the story that was never told – Escaping the Holocaust" (ISBN: 978-91-8059-571-1), but this time in English (460 pages). The first edition was published in Swedish in 2010 with an expanded edition in 2016 (still also available). New facts have been added over the years and a new chapter on my investigation project "Jewish registers, incitement to racial hatred and the internet”, which was observed in media.I found a number of Jewish registers set up in Sweden.This also leads to a concluding observation on the consequences of anti-Semitic hatred spreading in today’s social media. A little about the content in my book: I was born in 1950 and grew up with my parents and an elder brother in a suburb of Stockholm. At home, German was spoken, since my parents were German Jewish immigrants. My parents, Elli and Kurt, had immigrated to Sweden in 1943. But they told us almost nothing about what had happened to them during the war. It was not until the early decease of my parents that the questions started to accumulate. This is the story about my parents Elli and Kurt Oppenheimer, how they grew up in Frankfurt/Main, were educated, met each other and got married. How life, after Hitler’s takeover of power, gradually changed and eventually forced them to emigrate to the Netherlands, where after the German invasion, they had to go into hiding. You can follow them survive deportation; eventually get an exit visa accepted by Adolf Eichmann and desperately struggle to get a residence permit in Sweden. You will learn what happened to their immediate family and, above all, how in the nick of time they were saved and could be reunited with their relatives in Sweden. The restrictive Swedish refugee policy is illustrated in various ways. There were a few other people who made considerable efforts to save Jews in distress during the war. What happened to the consul Borrero, who from Stockholm issued Ecuadorian passports to Jews in Poland and the Netherlands? The Swedes very likely knew what was going on in Germany. The information was available – but what did the Germany-friendly Swedes want to believe? You can read comments about my book and the lectures I have given in Sweden and abroad. See my blog: www.bertiloppenheimer.blogspot.com. I hope you are interested in reading my new updated book in English. The book can also be a suitable gift for someone who is interested in our dreadful part of history.I would appreciate if you forward this letter to others who might be interested in reading my book. We must never forget! You can order my new book via the link: https://webshop.publit.com/webshop/5008 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me: bertil.oppenheimer@outlook.com. //Bertil Oppenheimer

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