Richard Aronowitz (London) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl (Essen)

Isy Aronowitz, who had grown up in Wuppertal, was deported as an Ostjude in 1938, at the age of 25. He kept a diary from December 1940 to August 1943, recording his time spent in two labour camps, working on the construction of a motorway and in the armaments industry. The manuscript of this diary was inherited by Isy’s great-nephew, the English art historian and writer Richard Aronowitz whose mother came to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport. Richard Aronowitz incorporated elements of Isy´s diary in his novel "Five Amber Beads" (2006). Christoph Heyl, professor of British Literature and Culture (University of Duisburg-Essen), has now published an edition of the entire diary, with a preface written by Richard Aronowitz. Moderation: Dr. Bettina Hofmann

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