GERMAN MEMOIR

German Memoir

German Memoir

The book 'Over the Green Hill: A German Jewish Memoir 1913-1943' was written by Lotte Strauss in the year 1913. It is not an eyewitness account as it is a personal letter and instead a memoir which was later penned down.

The book 'Over the Green Hill has been written by Lotte Strauss. Lotte Strauss was born in the year 1913 on 15 April in Germany, Nuremberg. Strauss was an American pathologist and worked with several writers including Jacob Churg and has therefore given her name to “Churg-Strauss syndrome”. She eventually died in the year 1985. This book by Strauss was written and published in the year 1997 in Germany.

The memoir on this book by Strauss was started off in the year 1975 as a part of the letter to explain the scenario that her mother was experiencing as a German Nazi in Germany. This book has not been translated yet nor has it been edited and is preserved as it is. The reason behind the memoir not being edited yet is because it is a personal memoir and can not be edited by any other person than him/herself.

Strauss started to write this as a part of the letter to her daughter which was her initial intentions. However, she did not realize and went on writing and writing this letter that it took almost twenty years in writing and to complete the whole letter. By this time, the letter was no more considered as a letter but it turned out to be a story. The book was not written with the intention of writing a book but instead it was just letter writing but grew up to a book in twenty years. The letter written for her daughter by Strauss seems to be a personal descriptive letter that explains the particular time period that was being experienced by Strauss in such a difficult time period.

It was one year before the World War when Lotte Strauss came to this world, in other words, the time of her birth. All of the formative years of Strauss were spent in finding out the answers and spending her time in researching that how the mood of the Post World War could have turned into anti Semitic (Strauss, 1999). Strauss had a strong background and grew up in Germany as a German Jew in a small town located in Northern ...