The end of the 15th century was a period of religious hatred that ascribed to Jews all possible evils.
The Hussite Wars became the signal for renewed persecution of Jews. Entire communities, like those of Trier, Worms, Mainz and Cologne, were slaughtered. The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany. "This was a golden age as area bishops protected the Jews resulting in increased trade and prosperity." The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during medieval times. Accusations of well poisoning during the Black Death (1346–53) led to mass slaughter of German Jews and they fled in large numbers to Poland. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades. I listened to this one on audio and the narrator was excellent.The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages ( circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community.
The book is informative and insightful and you certainly feel emotion on reading this account.
Every memoir or account like this is unique and essential in helping us remember and experience though words a time of madness, of shocking and shameful atrocities and a time when people turned their backs while their neighbours and friends It is however the first book of a 3 parts series which I do think it is important to point out as I failed to observe this fact before reading the book and really felt the ending rushed until I realised it there are two other books in the series.Ī First hand account of the life of a young teenager in a Nazi concentration camp, a difficult but important story from a first hand view, a compelling read and as always with books written on the Holocaust an important account of what torture and cruelty human beings can inflict on their fellow citizens. I have lived a Thousand Years is a well written, candid, and deeply poignant account of survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
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